George Arseneault wrote: > I have an HP-Pavilion with a 40GB main drive which has > Windows on it and a 8GB secondary drive on which I > mounted FC5. Needless to say, I'd rather have MP3's, > jpeg's and such on the big drive. > > I've got it set up so I can mount the Win drive > read-only. Since, I believe I read it somewhere, that > writing to a VFat partition can sometimes cause > errors. > > Is this true? I'd say it is not true. Vfat32 is generally considered the best solution for data interchange between Linux and Windows when dual booting or for external hard disks. You should just avoid unclean unmounts (that is, without umount), but this applies more or less to every filesystem. In any case, a fsck.vfat command is available. But don't forget to have a recent backup of your data somewhere. Even if the software is not buggy, the hardware can die in any moment. (in my experience with reiserfs, I found hard disk hardware is much more fragile than the filesystem). For NTFS the situation is worse, although improving during last months. Best regards. -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it
