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aardwolf

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2005-07-23

Posts: 304

filesystem container on VFAT

Hello,

Concerning a filesystem container, which had the ext4 filesystem inside of it, but with the container file located on a VFAT partition:

When shutting down or rebooting the computer, data inside that container that was still open by programs, got corrupted.

Can that be explained by being on a FAT32 partition? I never had problems with files on that partition outside of that container. I know FAT32 is old and not journaling (but it's the ONLY filesystem working on linux and windows and mac), but since I never had problems with it before, I didn't expect a container on it to give problems either. What could be the difference?

I moved the container file to an ext4 partition (so now it's ext4 on ext4), and so far the problem didn't happen anymore, but can I be sure that it indeed won't happen?

Thanks!