Don't backup your data by straight copying to FAT. Rather tar-zip which will preserve your file permissions/attributes and also compress the stuff. Stephen Bosch wrote: > > 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. NTFS is not that bad. It supports ACLs which linux does not yet. The biggest problem is that very few Windows (NT) users know/care about file permissions. The access control is not significant. If you mount a partition in one OS from another OS, you can normally override file security. If you have tried the Ext2fs reader for windows, you will see that you can extract ANY files you like from the file-system, without a unix account ! What is more significant, and the actual problem here is the mapping of unix permissions / file attributes. When linux has full support for NTFS, this may be solved, since NT has rwx permissions on directories and files. > 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- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. -- |--------------------------------------------------------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone +27824722231 email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Centre for Automotive Engineering http://www.sun.ac.za/cae South Africas first satellite: http://sunsat.ee.sun.ac.za Control Models http://www.control.co.za |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------|
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