From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 3 22:53:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (fe5.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9DFB37B419 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 22:53:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.154]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Wed, 3 Apr 2002 22:54:49 -0500 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id C2111BA05; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 22:54:39 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: Peter Leftwich , Scott Aitken Subject: Re: fat32 read/write Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 22:54:39 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: FreeBSD Questions References: <20020403150914.O56569-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <20020403150914.O56569-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020404035439.C2111BA05@i8k.babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday 03 April 2002 03:11 pm, Peter Leftwich wrote: | On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Scott Aitken wrote: | > Hi all, a few days back I asked about using NTFS in read write mode, and | > the general feeling was that is is still "experimental". If I were to | > convert my volume to Fat32, would this mean I would "safely" mount my | > data read write? (I may have problems with fat32 on an 80gig partition - | > I'm not sure). TIA | > Scott | | With the mount command, it seems there really is no such thing as "safe." Oh, pshaw. r/w on FAT partitions really works quite well. Heck, I had no trouble with it seven years ago. I mean I was always a little nervous but it worked fine for me, but by now it should be pretty solid. Certainly it's never given me any trouble. | Better, when in doubt, to mount ro (read-only) I would say. Join a mail | list dedicated solely to NTFS and Fat32, lurk or post, research, stay | abreast of the latest read-write successes on FreeBSD. Just my TC. -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) ME --> http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org <-- GOOD GUYS --> http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message