Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 16:13:46 -0500 From: "James B. Byrne" <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> To: "Polytropon" <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: "James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RSYNC changes file name Message-ID: <18bd6c1326e011634c5b548e5cfd94aa.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> In-Reply-To: <20190129214351.2f32c04c.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <9aaa35912b122e88e667e7516ba6a865.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> <20190129204033.7312742f.freebsd@edvax.de> <10a14c28507feee71572a2573d319fc3.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> <20190129214351.2f32c04c.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Tue, January 29, 2019 15:43, Polytropon wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 15:28:50 -0500, James B. Byrne wrote:
>> Gpart reports the file system is type 12 which I believe is some
>> variant of FAT. MS Windows does not permit file names ending in
>> either a dot or a space. The filesystem silently truncates the
>> offending character.
>
> Ha, just as I thought. :-)
>
> If you're going to use the target medium for FreeBSD
> only (i. e., you won't access it from "Windows"), why
> not initialize it with UFS? There are even tunefs
> options that can help optimizing access to specific
> media, like USB sticks or SD cards. In fact, there
> even isn't a need for a partition table, if you for
> example do "newfs /dev/da0" (where da0 corresponds
> to the medium in question), and then you can use it
> as "mount -t ufs /dev/da0 /mnt" without problems.
> Filenames will then correctly be stored.
>
> Suggestion: For backing up FreeBSD stuff, keep using
> FreeBSD stuff. :-)
>
The resulting archives must be readable on a windows OS. It is a
portable backup which may have to be used in situations where any form
of *nix will not be available to me.
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