Re: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32?
In your email to me, Lawrence Chim, you wrote:
>
> Harmon Sequoya Nine wrote:
> >
> > Unless its changed in the past few months, Linux can read and write to
> > dos/windows 95 partitions without a problem. There are two ways. The
> > first is with the "mtools" (do a "man mtools" to get more info), although
> > this is usually only with a floppy.
> >
> > The second way is to mount the win95 partition using:
> >
> > mount -t vfat /dev/??? /mountDir
> >
> > This should work like a charm. Let me know if it doesn't ...
> >
> > -- Harmon
>
> Do you realise that FAT32 is different from FAT16?
> Only OEM WIN95 supports FAT32!
Heh.. I must have sent out about 100 replys like this one from people
telling me the same thing as above. I've just given up replying.
Tim
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