Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 23:29:42 -0400 (EDT) From: "James A. Mutter" <sleep@insomnia.norden1.com> To: chad@dcfinc.com Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Win95 file system Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971020232655.389A-100000@insomnia.norden1.com> In-Reply-To: <199710210147.SAA09134@freebie.dcfinc.com>
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> If I build a dual-boot system (Win95 and FreeBSD), will I be able to > manipulate the Messy-DOS partition from within FreeBSD? That is, does > the "msdos" filesystem type support long file names and extended > attributes? > > -crl Chad, a couple of things here. Just to be nitpicky - the MSDOS filesystem does not support long file names, thats the VFAT file system. Linux has support for VFAT, I'm not too sure about FreeBSD. The attributes from the non-FreeBSD side ( MSDOS or VFAT ) will not be preserved, at least I don't think they will. :/
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