Christopher Barry on 13 May 2017 08:11:53 -0700 |
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Re: [PLUG] What's the best way to share a partition between windows and linux in 2017? |
On Sat, 13 May 2017 01:12:10 -0400 PaulNM <plug@paulscrap.com> wrote: >I recommend and use exfat for this kind of use. It has the benefit of >being writable by Macs as well, without having to pay for software. > >One thing to watch out for with exfat, don't use rsync -a. There's >some kind of quirk where rsync will end up recopying data that's >already there. I've seen different reasons given, but it seems to be >related to timestamps and/or permission issues. Not sure why, as other >file systems that don't support permissions or as granular timestamps >seem to work fine. (Most notably vfat.) > >https://superuser.com/questions/919127/rsync-resending-all-files-because-files-have-different-timestamp-off-by-1-se > >http://blog.marcelotmelo.com/linux/ubuntu/rsync-to-an-exfat-partition/ > >- PaulNM > >___________________________________________________________________________ >Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- >http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - >http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General >Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug --modify-window --size-only might be a couple of rsync switches to read up on to see if they may mitigate that issue. -- Regards, Christopher ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug