Re: [tlug] Erratic Rsync Behavior

[Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com>]

On 29/04/11 11:24, Charles Muller wrote:
> On 04/29/2011 12:07 AM, Raymond Wan wrote:
> Yes, I am dual-booting, and no doubt this is probably the thing I
> should check into. I *have* been dual-booting for almost ten years
> though, and have never had these problems before, which is why I am
> befuddled by the sudden appearance of this problem. However, when I
> go to my office next time, I'm going to carefully check the time
> setting on both Debian and XP.


Ah!  I, too, am also dual booting Debian/Windows (Vista, 
though).  However, I use Windows as a last resort :-) and 
rarely transfer files between partitions.

Even so, I may end up with your problem some day, so it 
would be good to hear how you solve your problem.


> > BTW, I'm not that knowledgeable with Windows' file systems...any
> > reason why you are using FAT and not NTFS?
>
> When I first began using Linux, there was little, if any NTFS
> support, so I kept running my Windows systems on FAT for a long
> time. For the machines that I've bought most recently, I'm leaving
> them as NTFS. No problems.


Yes, I think it is a pain to switch from FAT to NTFS.  I'm 
surprised you haven't been bitten yet by case-sensitive and 
unicode filenames.  When I boot up in Debian, it keeps 
warning me about my FAT partition; but since I use it to 
copy the odd file between partitions, I generally ignore 
this warning.

Good luck with finding a solution!

Ray