On 12/4/2009 3:57 PM, Frank Peters wrote:
On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 20:36:48 -0600
Barry Schwartzchemoelect...@chemoelectric.org wrote:
Depending on what the DOS fs stuff is for, sys-fs/ntfs3g might be a
better option, anyway, though I have a vfat partition from before I
discovered ntfs3g, and would
Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net skribis:
Barry Schwartz chemoelect...@chemoelectric.org wrote:
Depending on what the DOS fs stuff is for, sys-fs/ntfs3g might be a
better option, anyway, though I have a vfat partition from before I
discovered ntfs3g, and would keep dosfstools (and
Lie Ryan posted on Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:14:38 +1100 as excerpted:
Don't know whether such precaution is necessary, but I kept a small FAT
(actually 8G is not so small) partition in my external harddisk that
contains drivers for ntfs-3g for the platforms that I may meet at the
middle of the
On 12/5/2009 4:35 AM, Duncan wrote:
So FWIW, your small 8 gig partition for boot-time compatibility
purposes is sort of already built into the GPT/EFI spec. That would
contain all you needed to boot the kernel, and if you chose not to build
them into your kernels, your ntfs and other kernel
Lie Ryan posted on Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:17:42 +1100 as excerpted:
The 8G is small compared to the external's size (120G)
I think I mentioned it, but I still find it amazing... Fry's Electronics
recently had a USB 1 TB external for $80. I snagged one. I'm not
bragging, as after tax, that's
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:17:42 +1100
Lie Ryan lie.1...@gmail.com wrote:
Booting was one of my least concern (it's a portable external harddisk,
I don't need an OS in there), I use the FAT partition to store NTFS
drivers (source and precompiled) for systems that don't already have
NTFS-3G
Lie Ryan posted on Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:46:30 +1100 as excerpted:
But I felt even more foolish to have to reboot to the the OS in my
harddisk just to copy a 50kB file to my NTFS partition because my
friend's Macbook cannot write to NTFS. GPT only helps to boot, it
doesn't make a Macbook read
Juan Fco. Giordana posted on Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:31:01 + as excerpted:
alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote:
I need vfat tools (mkfs.vfat, fsck.vfat...) and can't figure out the
package to which they belong. Help welcome...
sys-fs/dosfstools :P
LOL. Didn't know we had that many list
On 12/03/2009 11:46 PM, Duncan wrote:
Juan Fco. Giordana posted on Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:31:01 + as excerpted:
alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote:
I need vfat tools (mkfs.vfat, fsck.vfat...) and can't figure out the
package to which they belong. Help welcome...
sys-fs/dosfstools :P
LOL.
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes:
I think the problem here is the increased hiccup frequency of GMane lately :P
At the time we posted dosfstools most didn't even see that other people
already replied with the same thing.
It was not gmane. I saw the same delay being a
Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net skribis:
(FWIW, I format everything reiserfs or ext2/3/4, here, and haven't used
fat, at least not to the degree I'd need to fsck or mkfs it, if someone
not on Linux needs a file, it goes by net and they download it to their
own fs, since my Mandrake days at
On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 20:36:48 -0600
Barry Schwartz chemoelect...@chemoelectric.org wrote:
Depending on what the DOS fs stuff is for, sys-fs/ntfs3g might be a
better option, anyway, though I have a vfat partition from before I
discovered ntfs3g, and would keep dosfstools (and the kernel
Barry Schwartz posted on Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:36:48 -0600 as excerpted:
Depending on what the DOS fs stuff is for, sys-fs/ntfs3g might be a
better option, anyway, though I have a vfat partition from before I
discovered ntfs3g, and would keep dosfstools (and the kernel support)
and/or mtools
On 12/02/2009 05:42 PM, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote:
I need vfat tools (mkfs.vfat, fsck.vfat...) and can't figure out the package to
which they belong. Help welcome...
sys-fs/dosfstools
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