writing to FAT32 3111
In a message on 5 Mar 2005 14:06:59 -0800, wrote : The Linux FAT drivers are very stable and reliable. Floppies tend to be...
Are you sure? All the Win2000 I've installed really wants to be installed in NTFS. YMMV...
I have used ntfs tools from sourceforge to resize NTFS parbreastions both smaller & larger, & it worked. I have mounted NTFS parbreastions for reading, but haven't tried writing to it from Linux.
As for FAT & FAT32 aka vfat, I've been reading & writing to that parbreastion type for many years without problem...well, see below.
I have this line in myetc-fstab:
dev-fd0 floppy vfat user,noauto,rw
When logged in as my user name, not root, I merely "mountfloppy" & everything is hunky-dory.
Dances With Crows that is, w.r.t. floppies I'd better explain a bit more about my circumstances. I inherited a Pentium 2, and when I got a new hard drive I parbreastioned its disc...
One caveat - *always* "umountfloppy" before removing the floppy *&* wait until the command line prompt returns. Write caching means you can get a command line prompt back before a write has completed or even started.
Ok, I've never had a problem writing vfat at home. At work, when writing a floppy, there is one machine where I can be pedantic about umount & waiting for command line prompt to return & end up with a hosed floppy. I personally think it's a flakey floppy drive, but ya never know for sure 'til it totally craps out.
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