linux-kernel - Re: Wrong free clusters count on FAT32

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Date:	Sat, 21 Apr 2007 20:18:41 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
Cc:	Juergen Beisert <juergen127@...uzholzen.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Wrong free clusters count on FAT32

On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 07:42:22 +0900 OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp> wrote:

> Recent Windows doesn't update ->free_clusters correctly. The "nofree"
> option ignores the ->free_clusters stored on FSINFO.

It'd be better to avoid the new mount option if possible: fatfs is used by
a *lot* of people who aren't particualrly expert, and we want to make things
easy for them.

Is there some way in which we can work out what's happened and fix it up?
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