On 10/10/2013 10:39:36 AM, dmccunney wrote:
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 3:04 AM, Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/08/2013 12:46:34 PM, dmccunney wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Rob Landley <[email protected]>
wrote:
>> > Are there a lot of thumb drives formatted NTFS out in the wild?
(I'll add
>> > code to deal with a real world problem, my question is whether
this is a
>> > real world problem? No idea.)
>>
>> I have one. But I made it for a particular purpose by
reformatting it
>> as NTFS. (I likewise have an ext2 thumbdrive.) Every other thumb
>> drive I've seen comes formatted as FAT16 or FAT32 depending on
size,
>> because pretty much everything can read a FAT filesystem.
>>
>> I doubt all that many people will have Bad Things Happen because
>> toybox doesn't grok NTFS on the thumb drive. A generic "I don't
know
>> what this is" error message should be adequate.
>
> Oh it'll identify it as ntfs, it just won't give a label, which may
confuse
> hotplug automounters that call the command line tool instead of
having type
> identification built-in.
Okay, I can see lack of label being an issue. Still not sure it's
*enough* of an issue to merit more code.
> (Mind if I cc: the list?)
Nope. Feel free. (Meant to put it on the list to begin with, but
didn't do reply all.)
> Rob
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Dennis
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Rob
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