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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