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From: Philipp Reichmuth <chokepnt@prima.ruhr.de>
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To: Udo Wolter <uwp@ukrv.de>
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Subject: Re: mount_msdos -- is it safe yet?
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Udo Wolter wrote:

> As long as the msdosfs is buggy I recommend the mtools (I'm using V3.6
> by myself and they're working fine for me ! I think there must be a more
> uptodate version). I never had any problems with them, they work on
> SCSI disks and on (E)IDE disks. Ok, these tools are not quite good to
> copy whole trees, but they're working without trashing the disk.
> Setting up a system will last longer than copy trees by hand...

How about LFN and VFAT32 support? (I don't have the time to do it
myself)

Philipp