Re: 2.5.5-pre1: mounting NTFS partitions -t VFAT

From: OGAWA Hirofumi (hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp)
Date: Mon Feb 18 2002 - 09:56:35 EST


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.

-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
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