Kushal Kumaran wrote: > On 4/5/07, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) <smibrahim@gmail.com> wrote: > > You'll lose the permission bits and owner/group, etc. (Maybe even > filename case, but I'm not sure). Use tar if all you have is fat32. seconded. If it's of importance also check the maximum file size of your fat32. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat32 the maximum file size on fat32 is 4GB. HTH, Johannes