Jeff, I have fat32 drives and i save onto them from linux. i have not had any
problems other than one little thing.... when i run norton disk doctor on my fat
drives, if i have written to that drive from linux i will get "invalid date or time"
error on some of the files on that drive. i'm guessing this relates to the way in
which dos & linux write the date/time information..... but it seems to do no
harm..... i assume then you have fat16, yes?? i'd say just make a directory in
win/dos, then go in linux, write a bunch of files into that directory, then go back to
win/dos & see if they are ok. i'm 99% sure they will be fine. after all, don't
floppys still format fat16 under dos/win?? i think they do, and i can write to a
floppy just fine.
Adrian Smith
'de telepone dude
Telecom Dept.
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>>> Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 5:46:45 PM 10/13/00 >>>
It was my understanding that even though Linux could be setup to read and copy
files from fat (dos) partitions by mounting them, it was not wise to write back
to these fat partitions from within linux. Yet I read messages about doing
that, I believe through fat32?
My fat partitions are not fat32. Can I or cn I not save files to these
partitions from linux? As I live more and more in linus it becomes important
not only to access my data files from the fat p;artitions but also to save
changes made back to those fat partitions. Safe or no?
Thanks.
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Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Registered Linux User 348854
