[ILUG] Copying between ext3 and vfat

Kevin Philp kevin at cybercolloids.net
Wed Aug 17 10:46:02 IST 2005


My understanding is that:

ext3 - case sensitive & case preserving

vfat - neither case sensitive or case preserving

So if I copy a directory from an ext3 volume to a vfat volume will I get into 
problems with files that differ only in the case of their filenames?

The reason for asking is that we are thinking of using rsync to copy peoples 
work files onto USB pen drives so they can use them at home - where they 
invariably have WinXP but all the files are on their works computer which is 
Linux.

Kevin.



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