Paul Johnson wrote:

> Andrei Popescu wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user:
> 
>> On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 04:28:36AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
>> 
>>> > You'll lose the permission bits and owner/group, etc.  (Maybe even
>>> > filename case, but I'm not sure).  Use tar if all you have is fat32.
>>> 
>>> If it's VFAT, it'll retain case, though you can't have two files with
>>> the same name seperated only by different cases in VFAT.
>> 
>> Not true. See mount(8), the option 'posix' for vfat.
> 
> What happens when a Windows system encounters that filesystem, though?
> Doesn't scandisk sack it?
> 
The posix option for vfat is no longer supported: all you get is
'FAT: "posix" option is obsolete, not supported now' in dmesg.
This is a good thing!



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