On Tuesday 07 November 2017 12:28:41 Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 10:12:49PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: > > Easy way how to achieve this situation: > > > > 1. use mkdosfs to format hard disk to FAT32 with label LABEL42 > > > > 2. boot Windows 10 (or XP) and set label of that FAT32 partition to > > empty (via Explorer GUI) > > > > 3. profit > > > > You would have stored LABEL42 in boot sector and no label in root > > directory. Windows handle this situation as there is no label. > > But why should we *care*? FAT is Microsoft's filesystem and the only usage of it on Linux is due to interoperability with different non-Linux systems. So here we should implement FAT in the similar/same way as other systems. It does not make sense to implement it differently and specially in non-compatible way. Because it lost reason what is primary usage of the FAT on Linux. -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
