File transfer problem

[Johnneylee Rollins]

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>        Normal use of the portable hard drive is backup of this
> computer using rsync. For this I use ext3. But, I discovered
> that if I have a ext3 partition and a ntfs partition the darn
> thing looks at this as two hard drives, one ext3 and the other
> ntsf. Really blew me off!

Quick note not meant to offend, the file system type is called NTFS,
not NTSF. It's an easy mistake.

My suggestion is to find a better backup method, namely one that
preserves file permissions in an ntfs partition. I suggest
reformatting that drive to ntfs and tar the rsync backup, or create
your own tar backup method. You should compress the files into a
.tar.gz format. You can still use winrar to look at the files, but
they also retain their permissions inside the tar'd backup.

If you have two partitions on a disk, the operating system sees the
two partitions as separate devices.

~SpaceGhost