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I've been trying to figure out what the implications are for using the "usefree" mount parameter.
Using the drive with some (which? Vista?) versions of Windows doesn't update the filesystem's free_clusters, and Linux's vfat driver doesn't know where the data is now written (if it is at all).
So, if I use the drive with only Linux, and older versions of Windows (which? XP? 2000?), everything will work peachy, but if I use the drive with some version of Windows, the free counts will be incorrect in Linux.
Is this a severe problem? What are the implications if this happens? Can data loss occur, or is there just a chance that incorrect free space will be displayed?