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Re: mkdosfs: strange?



Am Freitag, 25. Oktober 2002 09:55 schrieb Q. Gong:
> Windos 98. I used mkdosfs -f 32 /dev/hdc6 to format it. 

Commands are case-sensitive - try "mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/hdc6". 

> Under both
> win98 and Linux I can read and write on hdc6. But for Linux, ls only
> list the files created under Linux. Under Win98, only files created
> under win98 are visible.

This is because with "-f" you created a FAT-fs with 32 copies of the FAT, 
and win only uses 2 as far as I know...



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