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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-11.sprintlink.net!rockyd!not-for-mail From: Dan Ts'o <dan@dnn.rockefeller.edu> Subject: Re: can fat32 partition be mounted? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: dnn.rockefeller.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <E9Hr0K.Moo@rockyd.rockefeller.edu> Lines: 16 Sender: notes@rockyd.rockefeller.edu (News Administrator) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: Rockefeller University X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 960930] References: <33554DFA.41C67EA6@isi.edu> <5j5abm$8j1@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> <3358251A.2781E494@isi.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 07:19:32 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40086 Cengiz Alaettinoglu <cengiz@isi.edu> wrote: Brian Somers wrote: > > In article <33554DFA.41C67EA6@isi.edu> > The can, but the long filenames aren't understood. Also, beware of > the bug ! If you see something that says your cluster size is wrong, > unmount it immediately or you'll suffer. > > You'd be better to use mtools. I believe they support long filenames. But mtools really isn't a substitute is it ? It doesn't let you mount FAT. Maybe ok for copying a few files, but I have 500Mb DOS files that I don't want to have to copy around, merely use. Is it at least safe to mount the FAT filesystem read-only ?