On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 09:18:03AM +0000, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > You can't put a : in a filename on a FAT filesystem.
Interestingly enough, you *can* put a : in a filename on an NTFS filesystem, if you do it with ntfs-3g. Windows won't like it, though. Yes, I found that out the hard way ;-) (though this was several years ago, and ntfs-3g might have been patched in the mean time to no longer support that, but I have no way of testing anymore...) -- Could you people please use IRC like normal people?!? -- Amaya Rodrigo Sastre, trying to quiet down the buzz in the DebConf 2008 Hacklab