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. -- SteveEast ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SteveEast's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4193 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27147 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
