[Techtalk] Problem's mounting a window's filesystem?

[Carla Schroder]

On Thursday 25 September 2003 9:24 am, Hamster wrote:
> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:44:42 +0200
> From: scorcora at wisc.edu
> To: Hamster <hamster at hamsternet.org>
> Subject: Re: [Techtalk] Problem's mounting a window's filesystem?
>
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 04:23:28PM +0200, Hamster wrote:
> > erm its my understanding that CDs have their own filesystem. Therefore
> > your CD will not be fat32, it will just contain files copied off a fat32
> > drive.
>
> Right.  There are different formats, but as far as i can remember they
> aren't specific to the OS and they have more to do with filenames.  "A
> buncha files on a CD" should be "a buncha files on a CD" regardless of
> who's reading it.
>
> Of course, I also could be wrong. :P
>

You are correct, CDs have their very own filesystems, that's where you see 
those weirdo Joliet, Rock Ridge, and other oddball names. See Burning CDs on 
Linux 
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-cdburn.html
for a concise explanation of terminology.

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