Mounting /c

[Jerry McAllister]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 02:23:25AM +0000, RW wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:09:57 +0000
> Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh at onetel.com> wrote:
> 
> > Why not as a matter of curiosity? It has its limitations (eg max file 
> > size) but it's very cross platform.
> 
> ntfs is much more robust than fat32, if you crash windows or pull the
> plug, you are more likely to lose data with fat32.

But, if your MS-Win slice is just there for occasional convenience and
is not especially significant, converting NTFS to FAT32 is an easy way
to be able to write to it directly from FreeBSD.   The alternative is
to create a 3rd slice that is FAT32 and use it as a communication stash.

FAT32 has its limitations, but it is quite usable under most circumstances
if those limitations are not important.

////jerry


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