Strip incompatible characters from Windows partitions!

Alan Milnes deep64blue at itguru.org.uk
Fri May 16 08:03:02 UTC 2008


On 16/05/2008, Markus Hitter <mah at jump-ing.de> wrote:

>  Prohibiting feature X here because it's forbidden there isn't a good idea.

It is in this case because of Ubuntu's target population and the fact
the NTFS / FAT32 are not native Linux file formats. By all means allow
advanced users to turn this feature off but by default you should not
be allowed to create files which cause such a problem.

Alan




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