Ron F.;193753 Wrote: 
> Michael,
> 
> To SteveEast ... I had not tried the other way. I will try that. The
> one thing that scares me with that however is corrupting a mounted file
> system.
> 
> I have already had a scary experience with SlimCD on a hard drive. I
> mounted a 750 GByte FAT32 file system (external USB HDD) and after
> mounting it with the "-t vfat" option, DSL corrupted it within a few
> seconds. It was completely unreadable after creating a "Music" folder
> on it. Ouch. The one caveat in this experience was that I was logged
> onto SlimCD via SSH from another machine when I issued the "sudo mount
> -t vfat ..." command. Maybe that was not a good idea. I then issued a
> "mkdir Music on the mounted file system" - and that was all she wrote -
> the file system was slagged. I had to rebuild a new FAT32 file system on
> the drive.
> 
> -Ron

That's unpleasant. Where you do the mount from shouldn't be a concern.
FWIW, I mount my music library read only since SS doesn't need write
access to it. However, it's an XFS file system.

Steve.


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