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Using FAT32 with Linux

Posted by Cliff on from the sharing-filesystems-between-OSes dept.

jsparkes asks: "I haven't been able to find definitive information on mounting FAT32 filesystems in linux. It seems like it was implemented by Gordon Chaffee, who has this Fat32 homepage. It seems that it was added in 2.0.34 and should also be in 2.2.X. Does it work? Is just like an ext2 fs, or are there limitations? I'd like to dual boot linux and win98, but if I can't use my large FAT32 partitions, it would be pointless. (I have a 10G win98 drive, and will use a 1.2G for linux..)"

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  1. Been supported for a while by heroine · · Score: 2

    FAT32 supported was added a long time ago to fips and the kernel. The vfat driver transparently accesses fat32 filesystems as well as vfat filesystems. Just make sure MSDOS and VFAT are enabled during the kernel compile.