On 4-Mar-2009, at 06:45, Paul Slootman wrote:
On Wed 04 Mar 2009, David de Lama wrote:
I tested what happens with a file which is saved at a FAT32
partition and then this partition is converted to NTFS.
So first I transfered the file with rsync from the FAT32 partition
to my Linux /home folder. Then I converted the FAT32 partition to
NTFS.
After the convertation I transfered the file again to see what has
changed (amount of data).
I was surprised!!!! Nothing has changed!!! rsync only transfered
the checksums.
Why are you surprised?
Did you expect the underlying filesystem conversion to corrupt all the
files? (Which would sort of defeat the purpose of in-place
conversion of
the filesystem...)
With a change to NTFS I wouldn't expect any change. However, a change
FROM NTFS might produce some change as metadata could be lost.
Transferring from a richer FS to ... ah, more limited FS can certainly
do that.
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