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Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12

From "Mike Gonta" <mikegonta@gmail.com>
Newsgroups alt.lang.asm, alt.os.development
Subject Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12
Date 2016-04-02 20:08 -0400
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID <ndpmv3$1a3q$1@gioia.aioe.org> (permalink)
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"Robert Wessel" wrote:
> "Rod Pemberton" wrote:
>>"Robert Wessel" 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.

Hi Robert,

It can and you could. Please see my previous posts.


Mike Gonta
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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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