Thanks. Good to know. I have obviously been hampering myself unnecessarily.
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> Jeff, I have fat32 drives and i save onto them from linux. i have not had any
>problems other than one little thing.... when i run norton disk doctor on my fat
>drives, if i have written to that drive from linux i will get "invalid date or time"
>error on some of the files on that drive. i'm guessing this relates to the way in
>which dos & linux write the date/time information..... but it seems to do no
>harm..... i assume then you have fat16, yes?? i'd say just make a directory in
>win/dos, then go in linux, write a bunch of files into that directory, then go back
>to win/dos & see if they are ok. i'm 99% sure they will be fine. after all, don't
>floppys still format fat16 under dos/win?? i think they do, and i can write to a
>floppy just fine.
>
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> Adrian Smith
> 'de telepone dude
> Telecom Dept.
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> >>> Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 5:46:45 PM 10/13/00 >>>
> It was my understanding that even though Linux could be setup to read and copy
> files from fat (dos) partitions by mounting them, it was not wise to write back
> to these fat partitions from within linux. Yet I read messages about doing
> that, I believe through fat32?
>
> My fat partitions are not fat32. Can I or cn I not save files to these
> partitions from linux? As I live more and more in linus it becomes important
> not only to access my data files from the fat p;artitions but also to save
> changes made back to those fat partitions. Safe or no?
>
> Thanks.
>
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