Andre Majorel wrote: > On 2010-05-16 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? >> > > You bet. FAT is not nearly as liberal as Unix when it comes to > file names. > > As Ralf said, you can work around that by using an archiver like > tar or cpio. > > Or reformat the partition as ext3 or some such. Then you'll be > able to do incremental backups with rsync. >
Because it's an external hard disk I at least would format a small primary partition using FAT32 and one or more extended using ext3 or ext4 and perhaps a Linux swap too. OTOH it depends to the usage ;) having just one partition formatted as extFS also could be a wise decision. _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
