linux read vfat?

blackzone · 07-10-2006, 05:11 PM

I'm pretty surprise that I can read my floppy under linux which use fat filesystem. So linux can actually read it? How about NTFS and such.

Windows can't read ext2/ext3 I'm surprise Linux can read the reverse.

DeusExLinux · 07-10-2006, 05:20 PM

Linux can read NTFS, but the wrote support is pretty wonky.. so you might not want to write onto a ntfs part. from linux.

There are ext3 and ext2 patches for windows, though,.

DrOzz · 07-10-2006, 05:21 PM

sure it can read fat, ntfs, etc .. Why is that surprising ?

If it were me thinking about it, I'd be blown away if Windows could read anything buts own, rather than the reverse

DrOzz · 07-10-2006, 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by DeusExLinux

Linux can read NTFS, but the wrote support is pretty wonky.. so you might not want to write onto a ntfs part. from linux.

There are ext3 and ext2 patches for windows, though,.

was wonky

jstephens84 · 07-11-2006, 04:09 PM

That is what make linux so great as a network operating system. In order to be a file server it is going to have to know how to read differenct filesystems.

DeusExLinux · 07-11-2006, 05:12 PM

Did they fix the NTFS write support in the kernel? That would be awesome if they did....

drkstr · 07-11-2006, 07:08 PM

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Did they fix the NTFS write support in the kernel? That would be awesome if they did....

Last I heard, most of the bugs have been worked out. You still might run into problems time and again with user permissions, but nothing that will corrupt the disk.
regards,
...drkstr