On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Ron McDowell <[email protected]> wrote: > patrick keshishian wrote: >> >> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Ron McDowell <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> A note of caution. I copied a bunch of stuff from an OSX 10.6 partition >>> to >>> a FAT32 USB drive, and when looking at that FAT32 USB drive mounted on an >>> OpenBSD 4.7 system, any filenames that fit into the old DOS >>> 8-character-dot-3-character naming convention got mapped to all >>> uppercase. >>> Played hell with some of my source trees. :( >>> >> >> learn to use tar(1). >> >> --patrick >> >> > > Everybody here is so friendly! > > I know how to use tar, patrick. Having a tarball on that drive that I then > have to untar to the local [ffs|hfs] seems kind of redundant, inelegant and > just plain crufty.
but copying files to a limiting fs such as FAT32 is what, elegant? You are obviously using the usb stick/drive as a transport medium. The form in which you transfer data in that medium should be one that preserves the integrity of said data best possible. tar(1) will provide that integrity. --patrick
