Strip incompatible characters from Windows partitions!

[Scott Kitterman]

On Friday 16 May 2008 12:19, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 08:24 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > FAT is a defacto standard for portable storage devices.
>
> Not true anymore, the external disks I have seen that have > 300 GB came
> with NTFS. Anyway, external disks may be a different topic altogether,
> but what about the Windows system partition that Ubuntu mounts writable
> by default (IIRC)?

OK.  So then it's a mistake to assume anything about the target O/S based on 
they file system type.   

There was recently some discussion about this on #ubuntu-motu IRC and it seems 
pretty difficult to actually do this reliably and completely.

Scott K