Re: reiserfs to ext3

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.

Regards,
Andrei
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