On Sunday 05 April 2009 5:35:36 pm Ben Klein wrote: > My suggestion is a drop-down box in the "Advanced" tab of "Drives" to > control filesystem type (separate from disk type, as is suggested in > Comment #7 on 17938). It shouldn't be important for floppies or even > CD-ROMs, but the options could be: > - Default (autodetect, fall-back to unixfs) > - FAT12 (floppies) > - FAT16 > - FAT32 > - NTFS (probably don't need different versions on NTFS) > Possibly restrict these to CDROM type: > - ISO9660 > - UDF > > Unless someone can come up with a better default than unixfs :)
Why not make the default what the filesystem actually is? Eg. if the FS is FAT32, report FAT32; if it's NTFS, report NTFS; if it's a unixfs, report unixfs; etc. The registry/winecfg can then be used to override the per-drive type if it causes problems with certain apps.