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    SubjectRe: 2.5.5-pre1: mounting NTFS partitions -t VFAT
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    Jos Hulzink <josh@stack.nl> writes:

    > Hi Ogawa,
    >
    > Your patch seems to fix it more or less, not the way it should be
    > fixed, imho. Partitions other than FAT return bogus information, but
    > bogus is not always zero. Fortunately enough, one of those new if
    > statements returns an error, but this is a "works for me"
    > solution, not a decent one.

    No, that patch are validity check for FAT, not for you.

    > What lacks is a fingerprint detector, and iirc -long time ago- FAT has a
    > very easy to detect fingerprint.
    >
    > I'll dig into FAT documentation tonight.

    I read the document repeatedly and did much tests. If you read the
    document, you may use BS_OEMName or BS_FilSysType, however, these
    don't have a meaning.
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    OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
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