FAT32 corruption writing from Linux

[Alex Janssen]

Alex Janssen said the following on 10/8/2005 7:10 PM:

> Sarangan Thuraisingham said the following on 10/08/2005 12:17 PM:
>
>>
>>
>> On 10/8/05, *Alex Janssen* <alex at ourwoods.org 
>> <mailto:alex at ourwoods.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     'Forum Post said the following on 10/06/2005 11:23 PM:
>>
>>     >Try following these directions:
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >http://ubuntuguide.org/#automountfat
>>     >
>>     >
>>     I am trying this mount based on the instructions at
>>     ubuntuguide.org <http://ubuntuguide.org>.
>>     Things seem to be more stable.  At least no corruption is rearing 
>> its
>>     ugly head, yet.
>>     Do you know the purpose of the iocharset=utf8 option?  Other 
>> advice I
>>     have read does not specify it.
>>
>>
>> I think thats for filename conversions.  But this options seems to  
>> be not recognised. Cos I get an error during startup( I am using 
>> Hoary BTW), saying that the utf8 is not a recognised option.
>>
> I am also running 5.04.  When I mounted the FAT32 partition, I 
> received a warning that utf8 was not reccomended for FAT partitions.  
> It also said that the FAT mount would be case sensative using utf8.  I 
> have discontinued use of that option to see what difference it makes.
>
> Alex
>
Well, I guess the utf8 option is necessary.  I got some more corrupted 
files after I removed it.  I put it back and no corruption since.  I'm 
curious now, if anyone would care to shed some light on this,  I'd like 
to know how utf8 plays into this..

Alex

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