Is it safe to write to a vfat32 partition?

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Tue Oct 17 04:48:32 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 11:56 -0700, George Arseneault wrote:
> 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.

Haven't heard of that with FAT or VFAT, but NTFS definitely has a dodgy
record.

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