On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 17:44 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 16:02 +0100, Frank Smith wrote:
> > HI it's fat32 according to G parted!
> >  I remember this was for a windoze laptop I had years ago,
> > could this be the problem?
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Bob
> 
> Yes Bob, I guess we got it:
> 
> spinymo...@64studio:/media/INTENSO$ touch \<test\>
> touch: setting times of `<test>': No such file or directory
> spinymo...@64studio:/media/INTENSO$ touch ~/Desktop/\<test\>
> 
> /media/INTENSO is a FAT32 USB stick ~/Desktop is a ext4 hard disk
> partition. Writing the file name '<test>' to the USB stick didn't work,
> writing to ext4 and ext3 did work.


You should do a backup of Linux files to a FAT32 partition by creating
an archive, this won't cause any issue.


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