From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: james@piku.org.uk Subject: Re: vfat Doesn't Work With Windows 2000 Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 12:40:09 +0000 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20021102124009.GO24565@piku.org.uk> References: <200211021159.gA2BxVD19078@cdm01.deedsmiscentral.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200211021159.gA2BxVD19078@cdm01.deedsmiscentral.net> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Linux-Administration 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. -- You may not decode this -> WW91IGhhdmUganVzdCB2aW9sYXRlZCB0aGUgRE1DQQ== PGP Fingerprint [6AD6 865A BF6E 76BB 1FC2 E4C4 DEEA 7D08 D511 E149] PGP Public key [www.piku.org.uk/public-key.asc] - Home [www.piku.org.uk]