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Re: reiserfs to ext3



Andrei Popescu wrote in Article <20070430170652.GB25233@think.homenet>
posted to gmane.linux.debian.user:

> On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 04:28:36AM -0700, Paul Johnson 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.
>> 
>> If it's VFAT, it'll retain case, though you can't have two files with the
>> same name seperated only by different cases in VFAT.
> 
> Not true. See mount(8), the option 'posix' for vfat.

What happens when a Windows system encounters that filesystem, though? 
Doesn't scandisk sack it?

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Paul Johnson
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