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From: james@piku.org.uk
To: Linux-Administration <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: vfat Doesn't Work With Windows 2000
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 12:40:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021102124009.GO24565@piku.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200211021159.gA2BxVD19078@cdm01.deedsmiscentral.net>

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 04:59:31AM -0700, SoloCDM wrote:
| I have Linux Mandrake release 8.0 with Kernel 2.2.20-9.2mdk.
| The vfat isn't able to read any Windows 2000 diskettes.  What needs
| to be done to update vfat?

Windows 2000 uses NTFS, not VFAT.

There is read-only NTFS support in the kernel, but it's safest if you avoid
any read/write NTFS access in Linux as I believe it has a habit of breaking 
things.

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       reply	other threads:[~2002-11-02 12:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200211021159.gA2BxVD19078@cdm01.deedsmiscentral.net>
2002-11-02 12:40 ` james [this message]
2002-11-02 12:56 ` vfat Doesn't Work With Windows 2000 Tarun Dua
2002-11-03  1:06   ` SoloCDM
2002-11-04 13:08     ` daniel lance herrick
2002-11-04  9:38 ` Paul Furness
2002-11-02 12:41 Craig McDonald
2002-11-03  1:09 ` SoloCDM

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