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From: Dan Ts'o <dan@dnn.rockefeller.edu>
Subject: Re: can fat32 partition be mounted?
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Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 07:19:32 GMT
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Cengiz Alaettinoglu <cengiz@isi.edu> wrote:
Brian Somers wrote:
> 
> In article <33554DFA.41C67EA6@isi.edu>
> The can, but the long filenames aren't understood. Also, beware of
> the bug !  If you see something that says your cluster size is wrong,
> unmount it immediately or you'll suffer.
> 
> You'd be better to use mtools.  I believe they support long filenames.

	But mtools really isn't a substitute is it ? It doesn't let you
mount FAT.
	Maybe ok for copying a few files, but I have 500Mb DOS files that
I don't want to have to copy around, merely use.
	Is it at least safe to mount the FAT filesystem read-only ?