SD card suddenly read-only

[Jonas Norlander]

2008/10/15 Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes at yahoo.com>:
> --- On Tue, 10/14/08, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: SD card suddenly read-only
>> To: "Kubuntu Help and User Discussions" <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 4:27 PM
>> 2008/10/14 Jason Straight
>> <jason at jeetkunedomaster.net>:
>> > you can format it with linux as well - sudo mkfs.vfat
>> -F32 /dev/[sdcard]
>> >
>> > or -F16 if you want fat16.
>> >
>>
>> Thanks. I've found that Windows machines are picky
>> about USB storage
>> formated on Linux, especially when using UTF-8 filenames.
>>
>> --
>> Dotan Cohen
>>
>
> I don't remember that FAT has UTF support. There for you specify it as mount option. The formatting has nothing to do with it.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> regards
>

I think you are wrong :-)

If i remember right VFAT/FAT32 Long File Names can have up to 255
UTF-16 codec characters. I don't know if you can have Long file names
in FAT16 but I'm sure wikipedia has the answer.

/ Jonas