----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc Lijour" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 11:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux?
> Le May 13, 2004 05:00 pm, David A. Ferguson a écrit : > > I dual boot between Linux and W2k. I store the shared data on a FAT. > > Whenever I write to it from Linux it almost always comes up corrupted. > > > > Is there some special setting I should have in my 'fstab' or something? > > > > It is so bad that it is basically useless. I don't do anything special > > just open KWrite, enter some journal entries and exit. > > > > Thanks...David > > I use the same config. > My entry: > /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,uid=500,umask=0 0 0 > > You should definitely check twice, is it really FAT32? I thought it would have thought it was FAT16 or FAT12. I formated it with a Win98 (DOS booting) floppy and selected *no* big partions. It is only 1GB in size. Maybe I should try specifing FAT16/FAT12 in the fstab and see if I get better results? David
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