On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Omer Zak wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > On 17 Jan 2002, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: > > > > > I have a machine with Windows 95 and Linux installed on it. > > > I have the W95 (FAT) partitions mounted under linux. I would like to > > > back up the W95 partitions using tar under Linux. Seems to be that I > > > once had a problem backing up W95 files which have Hebrew names. I > > > don't have the machine in front of me right now, so I can't supply all > > > the details. > > > > > > In the meantime, has anyone tried this ? > > > > Try mounting it with the codepage iso8859-8 (or windows1255 or cp1255) and > > then tar. I believe that tar saves 8bit file names, and IIRC I tried > > opening such a tarball with winzip on hebrew win98 and it worked fine. > > I would recommend the uni_xlate option when mounting vfat filesystems. > This will ensure that your backup preserves the filename even if it > contains Unicode characters, which don't have representation in the > ISO8859-8 codepage. > > I had the experience of unsuccessful backup&restoration of a Windows 95 > partition without this option, and successful backup&restoration with this > option (under Linux 2.0.36). >
But here you want to create an archive, and extract it under windows (right?) uni_xlate is a mangling that is supported by linux alone. Still, if you want to copy files, this is the best way. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
