a very weird thing happened with me today. i changed the filesystem type of an "ext3" partition to "vfat" using "fdisk". i even booted into my windoze os, formatted the newly created partition, and can use the whole of 2.5GB. the weird thing starts now. i boot again into my gnu/linux os, and change the filesystem type in "/etc/fstab" to "vfat". when i tried to mount the partition, an error "wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda9, ......" was displayed. however i was able to mount the partition as "ext3" without any problems i can even copy files to that partition the funny thing is that i can access the same partition as "vfat" from windoze and as "ext3" from gnu/linux. the files that i store from windoze are not accessible from gnu/linux and vice-versa
any comments are welcome :-)