OSNews: The vfat File System and Linux | Linux Today

OSNews: The vfat File System and Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 14, 2005

“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…

“The vfat file system has been supported by Linux for years now.
Still there are a lot of obstacles. I want to show, with the help
of some practical examples, these obstacles and possible solutions
and workarounds…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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