How can you possibly stuff files from Windows to Linux without any tool?
That is, what civilme is warning you against is the situation where you
are booted under Windows, and you are storing a file into an ext2
partition.
In order to do this, you must be running a tool since Windows doesn't
know how to communicate with ext2 paritions . . .
"Oliver L. Plaine Jr." wrote:
>
> On Sun, 9 Jul 2000 09:28:33 -0800, >Civileme wrote:
>
> >http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/Explore2fs.htm
> >
> >And be sure to read the FAQ and related stuff. You do not
> >have to copy the directory to a FAT32 partition to be able to
> >read it from WIN. I do think that it is singularly dangerous
> >to write anything from win to linux, even with this tool, but
> >reading should be (comparatively) safe.
> ==========
> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 17:42:07
>
> Oh my,..Is this really bad to do, Civileme? I have been stuffing file
> after file up into linux for several months..Without any tools , just
> straight from a file....I thought that win would not be acceptable to
> this, but Linux could handle it ok?
>
> I have not noticed anything that seems like a problem that I
> can attribute to this after many megs...with the possible exception of
> some tar.gz files from the internet,(winmodem) are no longer zipped
> so zxvf will error not a" g zipped file" ... I can untar them with xvf
> and they are ok.
>
> Your words "singularly dangerous" makes me think I may be
> "unwittingly" staggering toward the abyss? don't the floppy's write to
> Linux from vfat without problem? why would this be different?
>
> The above seems like a lot of questions, but really it's just
> one "should I cease this practice?"<grin>.
>
> Thanks
> Olly P
> Biloxi
> Mississippi
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