Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 22 Apr 2007 23:46:33 +0200 (CEST) | From | Bodo Eggert <> | Subject | Re: Wrong free clusters count on FAT32 |
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On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: > Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> writes:
> > Windows _does_ care*, it will pretend the disk to be full. > > Did you test on 2000 or XP? (e.g. write 0 to free_clusters, then > create new file.)
That was back when I still used W98.
> > - usefree is a bad name (I'd suggest recalc_free instead), > > Is it about nofree option?
Yes. I think recalc_free is way more descriptive.
> > and your description is too cryptic to be understood by a non-linux > > FAT expert. > > Um... why do we need to care about non-linux people in the patch?
Non-experts in Linux FAT implementation details. "recalc sounds like might take long, let's try to disable it" should be all it takes to get a fast mount. -- Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say: 35. Ummm... Didn't you say you turned it off? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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