FAT filesystem and Linux: Difference between revisions

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Although the filesystem drivers in the kernel make it possible to access files and directories on FAT formatted volumes in the normal manner, it is also possible to do so without kernel driver support, using the utility programs that form the [[mtools]] utility suite. Like the ''vfat'' FAT filesystem driver, mtools provides long filename support using the same disc data structures that Microsoft Windows uses.<ref name=Smith2 /><ref name=Rajagopal>{{cite book|title=Multi-operating system networking: living with Unix, Netware, and NT|series=Auerbach Best Practices Series|author=Raj Rajagopal|publisher=CRC Press|year=2000|pages=25–21|isbn=<!--0-8493-9831-2-->978-0-8493-9831-5}}</ref><ref name=Welsh>{{cite book|title=Running Linux|series=Essential Guide to Linux|author=Matt Welsh|edition=4th|publisher=O'Reilly Media, Inc.|year=2003|isbn=<!--0-596-00272-6-->978-0-596-00272-5|pages=405}}</ref>

Alternately, one of the [[FUSE (linux)|FUSE]] filesystem drivers may be used -- FatFuseused—FatFuse, FuseFat or mountlo.<ref>[http://sourceforge.net/p/fuse/wiki/NonNativeFileSystems/ FUSE: NonNativeFileSystems]</ref>.

== POSIX Overlay Filesystem ==