Viktor Lakics wrote: > This could be very annoying sometimes eg. when you backup your linux > stuff on FAT32 partition (I use this file system for my data, because > I need to acces this stuff under Windoze as well), install a new linux > version and want to install your linux files again from the windoze > partition. This is exactly why I *never* back up Unix files or partitions to a FAT32 volume (unless I tar it, as Stew suggests). FAT32 doesn't support file permissions. There is no file access control whatsoever available in the filesystem. When you use a Windows filesystem, you get Windows features -- or lack thereof. Wherever possible I avoid Microsoft filesystems. I'm not confident you'll have much luck getting around this problem, except perhaps with some third-party patch or kludge. All I can suggest to you is that you try and move as much of your day-to-day computing (as I have) to Linux. I keep only data files and other archives on a Windows partition that I mount from Linux; everything else resides on happy ext2fs partitions. -Stephen-
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