From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NGT66-00054y-A5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:01:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 38E4FE0793 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 08:01:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f187.google.com (mail-yw0-f187.google.com [209.85.211.187]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5EDAE0778 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 06:17:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh17 with SMTP id 17so2279602ywh.2 for ; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:17:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Djsonl5O4u7FfmiEhIk2vxyC9CJaCu//ZvIKWTZIUWQ=; b=aAbR2C6j+JqIcSI2vFwJ8bxem8A6m3xU3Q4G/teTwca1DgP7Xp2Gt00qS+NYWZzc3u WjR2Jn+UU14Ux4Qt5ipNIyDMKGhTG9xtzaEWSOJU5kZqbvCwL2/v0fR35Z5OLKFU7cjP DN6wa4wroX3YbN6hIkY6UVsd//e2IdClbQvpc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=RBKxY2zx+5P6iByP+xi85NILgR/7GNFElc/8lOzPrFWv1qvgmHJwq7QV4QfPJYq2ms hHQjxouWQJIY8AduUFrhAc6nqR5/mMHN4ReVSyEQPKeAxWre/8P810iIxErpk0s5lMWX 7+FjPx4mxYCT1rMt03YkAJwFpTcmjsbLkRTIA= Received: by 10.150.89.22 with SMTP id m22mr4651904ybb.294.1259907429544; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:17:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.0.3? (220-244-75-10.static.tpgi.com.au [220.244.75.10]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 13sm1475972gxk.5.2009.12.03.22.17.06 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:17:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B18A8CE.3030502@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:14:38 +1100 From: Lie Ryan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091130 Thunderbird/3.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: FAT tools, where ? References: <1259768537.4b168ad9f0f7a@imp.free.fr> <4B176935.7010505@gmail.com> <20091204023648.GA20595@crud.chemoelectric.org> <20091203235749.470ccfab.frank.peters@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20091203235749.470ccfab.frank.peters@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: db73d664-4458-4ab5-9c5f-78333e1e3b3b X-Archives-Hash: 7ae0abc735eb92d9d02483780b772590 On 12/4/2009 3:57 PM, Frank Peters wrote: > On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 20:36:48 -0600 > Barry Schwartz wrote: >> Depending on what the DOS fs stuff is for, sys-fs/ntfs3g might be a >> better option, anyway, though I have a vfat partition from before I >> discovered ntfs3g, and would keep dosfstools (and the kernel support) >> and/or mtools around anyway, for working with those very occasional >> floppies. >> > It's not just floppies. FAT still has a major use for formatting > memory cards in digital cameras. If one is going to process digital > images with Linux one had better have the ability to handle FAT > partitions. Don't know whether such precaution is necessary, but I kept a small FAT (actually 8G is not so small) partition in my external harddisk that contains drivers for ntfs-3g for the platforms that I may meet at the middle of the road. It saved me a couple of times when I happen to be in a computer (or Gentoo Live CD) that can't read (or can only read) NTFS.