Actually, NTFS uses the colon, too, for identifying alternate data
streams...

Remember, kids, NTFS is a database, not a file system. It is therefore
quite convoluted.

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On Feb 20, 2012 11:48 AM, "Frank Steinmetzger" <Warp_7@gmx.de> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 01:31:38PM +0100, Stefan Schmiedl wrote:
>
> > > Hi,
> > >    I'm looking for what rsync options I can use to copy existing files
> > > on an ext3 file system to an external eSATA drive formatted with vfat.
> >
> > You will have problems if you try to rsync a maildir folder:
> >
> > stefan@g128 .maildir % ls -l cur
> > total 12772
> > -rw------- 1 stefan stefan    6177 27. Jul 2011
>  1311745926.M692969P7969.g128,S=6177,W=6324:2,RS
>
> you can write a colon in an NTFS filename, you won't be able to access the
> file in Windows though, due to it using : as drive separator. But a funny
> quirk is that you can't create dot-files in Explorer (".someting"),
> because it
> thinks the file has no name then, but only an extension. One has to use the
> console then.
>
> OTOH the OP wants to use the FAT disk in a media device. I don't expect it
> to
> handle maildir. *g*
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