Star The vfat file system and Linux
Linked by Christian Paratschek on Thu 10th Feb 2005 20:14 UTC
Linux Recently I stumbled across a very nice article, written by Torsten Scheck, published on pro-linux.de, a German Linux site. This article proved to be so helpful to me that I decided it would be worthwhile to translate it into English and republish it. Comments of the translator will be added in italics. I hope a lot of people will find this little gem as useful as I did...
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related problem
by ac on Fri 11th Feb 2005 15:44 UTC

i wanted to buy an external hd to store my ripped music-collection. I was thinking to use fat32 as the FS because the drive must be accessible from within windows also. the problem im now facing though is that many of my ripped mp3s contains characters in the filename which are illegal on fat32 (eg ? ' ! . , ). So either i have to convert my filename or try to get NTFS (including write support) working properly on linux (i heard captive was getting there but is rather slow)