Corrupted FAT32 writing with FC3

[Alex Janssen]

Hello,
I've set up my laptop to dual boot Windos XP Home and Fedora Core 3.  
The drive is partitioned with ntfs, fat32 and ext3.  I have Mozilla 
Thunderbird on Win and Linux setup to use the same files.  This seems to 
work fine most  of the time.  But, whenever I compact the t-bird files 
from the Linux side, Windows reports that the Thunderbird directories 
or  files are corrupt and unreadable.  I don't know if this is a problem 
with Thunderbird(unlikely), Linux, Windows or the drive itself.  I have 
run a disk sector scan from windows yielding no errors.  Usually, the 
newly created mail files are crosslinked with another file. 
I've Googled a bunch of stuff and found nothing specific to FC3.  Has 
anyone else had any problems like this?

I'm buffaloed.
Alex

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