On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Tan Dang wrote:
I have had this problem of files not showing up on the fat partition
after moving the files over from ffs also. I dual boot OpenBSD 3.8
and Windows XP on my laptop. Both os's share a fat partition. For my
particular case, I put Windows XP into hibernation mode and booted to
OpenBSD. I copied some ogg files from the ffs partition to the fat
partition. I was able to play the ogg files from the fat partition
with mplayer fine. On a boot to Windows XP, I was unable to see the
directories that held my ogg files. I rebooted back to OpenBSD and
the files were now not seen from OpenBSD.
When I shutdown Windows cleanly and move the files to the fat
partition from OpenBSD, then Windows seems to see the files fines.
You are asking for trouble if you are doing this - it is likely that
Windows is caching filesystem metadata and not refreshing it when it
resumes from suspend.
Don't fiddle with an (effectively) mounted device.
-d
