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Actually, NTFS uses the colon, too, for identifying alternate data |
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streams... |
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Remember, kids, NTFS is a database, not a file system. It is therefore |
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quite convoluted. |
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Sent from my Ice Cream Sandwich powered Kindle Fire! |
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Pardon any typos... |
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On Feb 20, 2012 11:48 AM, "Frank Steinmetzger" <Warp_7@×××.de> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 01:31:38PM +0100, Stefan Schmiedl wrote: |
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> > > Hi, |
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> > > I'm looking for what rsync options I can use to copy existing files |
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> > > on an ext3 file system to an external eSATA drive formatted with vfat. |
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> > |
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> > You will have problems if you try to rsync a maildir folder: |
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> > |
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> > stefan@g128 .maildir % ls -l cur |
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> > total 12772 |
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> > -rw------- 1 stefan stefan 6177 27. Jul 2011 |
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> 1311745926.M692969P7969.g128,S=6177,W=6324:2,RS |
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> you can write a colon in an NTFS filename, you won't be able to access the |
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> file in Windows though, due to it using : as drive separator. But a funny |
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> quirk is that you can't create dot-files in Explorer (".someting"), |
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> because it |
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> thinks the file has no name then, but only an extension. One has to use the |
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> console then. |
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> OTOH the OP wants to use the FAT disk in a media device. I don't expect it |
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> to |
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> handle maildir. *g* |
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> Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' |
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> I forbid any use of my email addresses with Facebook services. |
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> Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder. |
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