X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4D77E92C.1030403@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:55:08 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Rsync and FAT32 References: <4D77AA45.70103@cygwin.com> In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 3/9/2011 3:12 PM, Panos Katergiathis wrote: > Thank you for your polite reply. The issue at hand is of a more generic > nature and (if Google is any witness) is rather old. I am referring to the > well known problem of cygwin (at least, when rsync is used) not properly > handling NTFS permissions, thus resulting in folders and files that are no > longer deletable, therefore updatable, therefore usable. I thought that, by > using a FAT32 partition, perhaps permissions would no longer be a problem. Is > this a valid thought? If it were, then using the 'noacl' mount option would do the same thing for you. But it sounds to me (and I still have to WAG on this because I don't know any specifics of the problem you're seeing) like if either of above would be a valid solution for you that you should be able to get the same or better results from using the flags that rsync provides. But like I said, that's just a WAG based on available information. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple