{"id":399,"date":"2007-12-23T23:12:41","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T04:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/12\/23\/advice\/"},"modified":"2007-12-23T23:12:41","modified_gmt":"2007-12-24T04:12:41","slug":"advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/12\/23\/advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I learned two valuable lessons today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>Don&#8217;t ever create a 500GB FAT partition. No matter how good of an idea it seems, don&#8217;t do it. (Not terribly different is the advice, &#8220;Don&#8217;t ever create one big 500GB partition.&#8221;)<\/li>\n    <li>Mounting a filesystem as &#8220;msdos&#8221; is <em>not<\/em> the same as mounting it as &#8220;vfat&#8221; in Linux. msdos is still constrained by the 8.3 naming system. vfat is not. Unless the disk was literally written with MS DOS, don&#8217;t use msdos. It&#8217;ll <em>work<\/em> okay, but boy are you screwing yourself if you make backups with it mounted as msdos. (Fortunately, I realized this <em>before<\/em> wiping the drive.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned two valuable lessons today: Don&#8217;t ever create a 500GB FAT partition. No matter how good of an idea it seems, don&#8217;t do it. (Not terribly different is the advice, &#8220;Don&#8217;t ever create one big 500GB partition.&#8221;) Mounting a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/12\/23\/advice\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,11,13,15,22,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-humanitarianism","category-insanity","category-linux-tips","category-living","category-programming","category-rants-raves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}