On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 11:56 -0700, 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? Only if you lose power to the drive while the write is happening as VFAT has no journal. Other than that, writing to a VFAT or FAT16/24/32 filesystem is quite safe. The Windows-based FS you WILL have issues with is NTFS. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "I understand Windows 2000 has a Y2K problem." - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
