Re: GNU tar estimates for vfat filesystems (Was: How do I check level 1 sizes?)

[Chris Karakas]

Johannes Niess wrote:
> 
> 
> Why do you use VFAT on the server? Samba can do it's job on all file
> systems. Unix/Linux file systems like ext2 allow for a much more
> flexible administration of Samba because you can use Samba's access
> control on top of standard Unix access rights.
> 
Maybe I was not clear enough: this is a dual boot system. The vfat
filesystems are the Windows partitions. I need them to boot in Windows
directly. So, when I boot in Linux, I mount them as vfat, share them
with SAMBA and (try to) back them up with AMANDA.

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Chris Karakas
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