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Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12

From Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm>
Newsgroups alt.lang.asm, alt.os.development
Subject Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12
Date 2016-04-02 12:03 -0400
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID <20160402120331.5c62a947@_> (permalink)
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On Sat, 02 Apr 2016 00:10:07 -0500
Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 20:24:49 -0400, Rod Pemberton
> <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> wrote:
> >On Fri, 01 Apr 2016 17:29:49 -0500
> >Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> wrote:

> >> What's to prevent a defrag from moving the root directory?  What's
> >> to prevent the OS from extending the root directory, and then
> >> putting the directory entry for a file you're interested in after
> >> the 16th cluster of the root directory file?  What's to prevent
> >> the OS from putting a file (in the root directory) into a cluster
> >> past #2048 on the partition?  Or extending a file to a
> >> cluster>2048?  Or having defrag move it there?  
> >
> >This seems to be intended more for ease of filesystem setup and
> >access for primitive OSes, instead of 100% compatibility with FAT32
> >capable OSes like Linux or Windows.  
> 
> What's the point of FAT32 compatibility if the resulting volume cannot
> be safely accessed by Windows?  I assume you'd want a FAT32 volume so
> that you *could* mount the volume on a Windows or Linux PC, and fiddle
> with the contents.  Perhaps edit a configuration file, copy some
> output file from the device off the volume, etc.

At this point, I'm thinking it's mainly about an easy to implement
boot driver combined with a larger filesystem size, but Mike would
need to clarify.  The fact that it can be accessed as FAT32 means
you don't need extra utilities to create the image.


Rod Pemberton

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The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "Mike Gonta" <mikegonta@gmail.com> - 2016-03-31 17:51 -0400
  Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-31 20:48 -0500
    Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "Mike Gonta" <mikegonta@gmail.com> - 2016-04-01 06:50 -0400
      Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2016-04-01 11:06 -0500
        Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "Mike Gonta" <mikegonta@gmail.com> - 2016-04-01 13:45 -0400
          Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2016-04-01 17:06 -0500
            Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-04-01 23:16 +0100
              Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2016-04-01 17:29 -0500
                Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-04-01 20:24 -0400
                Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2016-04-02 00:10 -0500
                Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-04-02 12:03 -0400
                Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "Mike Gonta" <mikegonta@gmail.com> - 2016-04-02 20:19 -0400
                Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "Mike Gonta" <mikegonta@gmail.com> - 2016-04-02 20:08 -0400
                Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "Mike Gonta" <mikegonta@gmail.com> - 2016-04-02 20:02 -0400
                Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "Mike Gonta" <mikegonta@gmail.com> - 2016-04-02 19:55 -0400
              Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "Mike Gonta" <mikegonta@gmail.com> - 2016-04-02 19:30 -0400
            Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "Mike Gonta" <mikegonta@gmail.com> - 2016-04-02 18:55 -0400
              Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2016-04-04 00:40 -0500
  Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "wolfgang kern" <nowhere@never.at> - 2016-04-01 09:20 +0200
    Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "Mike Gonta" <mikegonta@gmail.com> - 2016-04-01 07:01 -0400
      Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "wolfgang kern" <nowhere@never.at> - 2016-04-04 10:42 +0200
        Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "Mike Gonta" <mikegonta@gmail.com> - 2016-04-05 15:58 -0400
          Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "wolfgang kern" <nowhere@never.at> - 2016-04-05 22:19 +0200
            Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "Mike Gonta" <mikegonta@gmail.com> - 2016-04-05 18:24 -0400
  Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-04-01 09:55 +0100
    Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "Mike Gonta" <mikegonta@gmail.com> - 2016-04-01 07:11 -0400
  Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-04-01 20:24 -0400
    Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "Mike Gonta" <mikegonta@gmail.com> - 2016-04-02 21:30 -0400

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