vfat32 Free Cluster Count Update

Hi! Doesn't the Linux vfat driver update the FAT32's free cluster summary count? Zweiblum:~# dosfsck /dev/sda11 dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN /dev/sda11: 2451 files, 28218/1918827 clusters Zweiblum:~# mount /dev/sda11 /mnt/win_daten/ Zweiblum:~# cp /etc/motd /mnt/win_daten/ Zweiblum:~#

Understanding Block Device Behaviour

Hi! Maybe someone on this list can shed some light on my following observations. I have a machine running Linux (2.6.23 / 2.6.24) as its main OS, a Windows XP test installation on a physical primary partition and one logical drive formatted as VFAT32 for exchanging data (/dev/sda11 / "d:"). I'm r

Re: Entropy Pool Contents

Phillip Susi wrote: >> I'm mainly wondering why writing stuff to /dev/*random does not change >> the entropy from zero to at least any low non-zero value... > I ran into this the other day myself and when I investigated the kernel > code, I found that writes to /dev/random do accept the data into t