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Message-ID: <20171107172841.twyu7ieekrs6b2da@thunk.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 12:28:41 -0500
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
Andreas Bombe <aeb@...ian.org>, Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>,
util-linux@...r.kernel.org,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrius Štikonas <andrius@...konas.eu>,
Curtis Gedak <gedakc@...il.com>, pavel@....cz
Subject: Re: Linux & FAT32 label
On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 10:12:49PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
> Easy way how to achieve this situation:
>
> 1. use mkdosfs to format hard disk to FAT32 with label LABEL42
>
> 2. boot Windows 10 (or XP) and set label of that FAT32 partition to
> empty (via Explorer GUI)
>
> 3. profit
>
> You would have stored LABEL42 in boot sector and no label in root
> directory. Windows handle this situation as there is no label.
But why should we *care*?
Puzzled,
- Ted
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