Re: suggestions for inter-OS file sharing?
On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 01:25:51PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> Perhaps I was mistaken. It's been some time now since I've used NT at
> home. Maybe it was fat16/vfat. Either way, I recall not having it loaded
> on NTFS and booting the NTLoader from LILO. If I had a spare partition,
> I'd double check... I vaguely recall it warning me about not using NTFS,
> but I never had a problem booting. Can't Win95 read/write fat16?
The story is simple:
FAT16 is the original DOS file system. (More or less.)
"VFAT" is FAT16 with long filename extensions. Microsoft don't make
any distinctions here; the term "VFAT" is a linuxism.
FAT32 is new with Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98. NT does not support it.
NTFS is supported only in NT (and linux). 95/98 cannot access it.
The only common file system is FAT16, but it only supports 2Gb
partitions and wastes space shockingly on small files. (I wasted
over 100Mb on 300k of small files earlier today, on a 2Gb FAT16 partition).
Hamish
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