One reasonable purpose to use fat32 on maybe one partition is if you dual-boot OSes or run a VM that has access to a certain partition. I can't think of one OS out there that can't read and write to fat32.
Chris Holman wrote: > And that's not to mention file/folder permissions, shadow copies, (Both > things are quite desirable, and quite lacking in FAT32. ) among other > things. > > On 5/12/2009 3:25 PM, Ook wrote: > >> I might have to recant that last claim. I vaguely recall about 9 years or so >> ago when c# was real new that I tried to do something that wouldn't work >> because I was hosting some files on a fat32 partition. And then in 2000/2001 >> When Win2000 was fairly new there was some weird disk caching bug that we >> suspected was only fat32, but Microsoft fixed it in a later service pack. So >> maybe there are a few reasons to be using ntfs after all. I'm sure that >> Microsoft wants you to, isn't that good enough of a reason? :) >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Ook"<ooksser...@zootal.com> >> To: "Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list" >> <hlds@list.valvesoftware.com> >> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 7:58 PM >> Subject: Re: [hlds] Left 4 Dead 2 Update Available >> >> >> >> >>> I've used fat32 and ntfs for many many years, and I have never had >>> anything >>> happen to a fat32 partition that made me wish I was using ntfs. If I had >>> my >>> choice, I'd put everything on ext4 but hell will freeze over before >>> windows >>> will boot from an ext4 partition (AFAIK, anyhow...) >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "msleeper"<mslee...@ismsleeperwrong.com> >>> To: "Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list" >>> <hlds@list.valvesoftware.com> >>> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 6:54 PM >>> Subject: Re: [hlds] Left 4 Dead 2 Update Available >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> If you are using a computer that still has a FAT32 partition, you >>>> deserve to have your games crash. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 18:50 -0800, Ook wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> I'm guessing the crash on startup fix is for the client, not the server? >>>>> My >>>>> server has always run fine on fat32, but there is NTFS WTF VALVE? being >>>>> screamed from one side of steam support to the other over what happened >>>>> to >>>>> the client a week or so ago :) >>>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: "Jason Ruymen"<jas...@valvesoftware.com> >>>>> To:<hlds@list.valvesoftware.com>; "'Half-Lifededicated Linux server >>>>> mailing >>>>> list'"<hlds_li...@list.valvesoftware.com>; >>>>> <hlds_annou...@list.valvesoftware.com> >>>>> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 6:32 PM >>>>> Subject: [hlds] Left 4 Dead 2 Update Available >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> A required update for Left 4 Dead 2 is now available. Please run >>>>>> hldsupdatetool to receive the update. The specific changes include: >>>>>> >>>>>> - Fixed crash on startup when using FAT32 file system >>>>>> - Fixed in-game chat input where the local encoding differs from the >>>>>> input >>>>>> language's >>>>>> - Fixed bug where Survivor Bots would sometimes become unresponsive in >>>>>> Scavenge games >>>>>> - Updated subtitle localization files for Hungarian, Portuguese, >>>>>> Romanian >>>>>> and Russian >>>>>> - Fixed exploit that allowed players on the Infected team to spawn >>>>>> directly next to the Survivors >>>>>> >>>>>> Jason >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>>>>> please visit: >>>>>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>>>> please visit: >>>>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>>>> >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>>> please visit: >>>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>> please visit: >>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
