On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:17 , Tethys <sta296@astradyne.co.uk> sent:

>"Andrew Farnsworth" writes:
>
>>Instantly accessible via windows on a reboot with no data loss.
>
>Wouldn't the NTFS -> ext[23] -> VFAT roundtrip lose things like ACL
>information associated with a file that would have been present with
>the original NTFS data?

Yes, you do lose said ACLs.  I should have qualified that as "nothing but metadata lost".  Seriously, for my use it was perfect as it was my personal desktop machine and I didn't care about ACLs as I had full rights to all the files anyway.  When I then moved the files from the Fat32 partition back to my NTFS partition their ACLs were set automatically by windows to the parent directory which is what they had when they were created in the first place.

Andy


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