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The main point I was driving at with this patch was to fix "Microsoft Window's FAT filesystems" (i.e., FAT filesystems which belong to Microsoft Windows, which is decidedly wrong). FAT32 first shipped with MS-DOS 7.1, as part of Windows 95 OSR2, but it's a (relatively) simple logical extension of the previous FATx filesystems (16 and 12 as we know and love them today, I don't think the PC ever saw 8), hence the "VFAT" driver name ‒ calling FAT-anything a Windows filesystem would be a flat-out lie, calling it a Microsoft filesystem would be, uh, facetious. NTFS (as part of Windows NT), on the other hand, is wholly different WRT the scope and feature-set (it does borrow some layouting from FAT, but reading NTFS as FAT doesn't get you very far, or much). The replacing bit is also questionable, especially in a.d. 2020: while it is true that you cannot install NT on FAT (after a certain point? my memory ain't what it used to be), and must therefore replace your existing FAT partitions with NTFS during upgrades; Windows NT 4.0, the last product to be NT-branded came out in 1996, i.e. you could not install Windows on FAT (and, therefore, upgrade it to NTFS, replacing it) during my entire lifetime. Indeed, in $(date +%Y) we live in a post-NTFS world ‒ putting NTFS in the same class as FAT beyond "is a filesystem" is a joke. Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> |
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README
This package contains Linux man pages for sections 1 through 8. Some more information is given in the 'man-pages-x.y.Announce' file. Homepage ======== For information about the Linux man-pages project, see http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/index.html. Bug reports and contributing ============================ If you have corrections and additions to suggest, see http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/contributing.html (Although there is a mirror of this repository on GitHub, please don't report issues via the GitHub issue tracker!) For further information on contributing, see the CONTRIBUTING file. Installing and uninstalling =========================== "make install" will copy these man pages to /usr/share/man/man[1-8]. To install to a path different from /usr, use "make install prefix=/install/path". "make remove" or "make uninstall" will remove any man page in this distribution from its destination. Use with caution, and remember to use "prefix" if desired, as with the "install" target. "make" or "make all" will perform "make uninstall" followed by "make install". Copyrights ========== See the 'man-pages-x.y.Announce' file.