Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade query
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:44:04
Message-Id: 1311248527.23305.3.camel@localhost.localdomain
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade query by jdm@jdm.myzen.co.uk
1 On Thursday, July 21 at 11:10 (+0000), jdm@××××××××××××.uk said:
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4 Well, depends on your definition of "works".
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6 AFAIK linux does not expose the NFTS permission system fully, because
7 they are very different and there is no 1:1 mapping between them. So
8 while the *data* may be copied over, the permissions will likely only be
9 copied as far as how the linux filesystem layer sees them, and may not
10 be preserved 100%.
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12 There are NTFS tools afaik though, (ntfsclone). Since I don't actually
13 use NTFS for anything, someone else may better be able to assist.