Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote:
FAT: not robust
ext* is not robust from my experiences. I cannot speack for ext4, but until ext3, I had a lot of trouble with these filesystems.
Ext* is only a good choice in case you never like to use anything besides Linux.
Hence why I reformatted the FAT stick NTFS instead of EXT2. I never like to use Windows. I boot it only briefly out of occasional necessity, or for fixing corrupted ones. Most NTFS usage here is from a non-FOSS STB.
AFAIK, NTFS is not documented, so implementations besides the one from Win-DOS are a result from a more or less good reverse engineering.
If you are on Linux, it is most unlikely that you did ever use "tar" but rather typically gtar.
v1.00 2008.04.24-06 I must deal with has no star, no gtar).
AZBox $ gtar -sh: gtar: command not found
On many Linux systems, gtar is installed as "tar".
$ tar BusyBox v1.00 (2008.04.24-06:54+0000) multi-call binary
Usage: tar -[czjxtvO] [-f TARFILE] [-C DIR] [FILE(s)] ......
This is definitely no output from the original "tar" but a clone. Are you sure you may trus it?
If you care about timestamps, did you ever think about star?
AZBox $ star -sh: star: command not found
My AZBox has no ?tar anywhere on it that MC can find.
Star runs everywhere (even inside my Android phone), so I cannot think about a scenario where you cannot use it.
Even on this 11.4 system: # star If 'star' is not a typo you can use command-not-found to lookup the package that contains it, like this: cnf star # gtar If 'gtar' is not a typo you can use command-not-found to lookup the package that contains it, like this: cnf gtar # zypper se -s tar | egrep 'star|gtar' | egrep -v 'tart|tars|tarl|dict' | gcstar | package | 1.6.1-4.1 | noarch | OSS | star | package | 1.5final-46.1 | i586 | OSS
Looks like you are running an extremely outdated or unmaintained OS. star-1.5 is from April 2008. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org