[PLUG] Resolved - mostly: Mounting a Winders drive with USB

Joe Pruett joey at clean.q7.com
Thu May 21 22:42:24 UTC 2009


> I am likely to be moving it between XP and Ubuntu, and I have no real
> need for ntfs, so I followed your advice and reformatted the drive as
> fat32. Now it mostly works as expected. The only thing that happens is
> that I get an error message about Windows not writing all of the data.
> Sounds like there needs to be a way to flush a buffer. On the other
> hand, everything I wanted copied, was successfully copied. I'm not sure
> what wasn't. I didn't recognize the path name mentioned (and, sorry, I
> didn't write that one down).

you should still use the 'remove safely' option as much as you can to 
avoid unflushed buffers.  fat32 is just less prone to corruption from not 
doing that.



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