syncing ext3 to fat32

Paul Slootman paul+rsync at wurtel.net
Fri Jan 15 05:17:41 MST 2010


On Fri 15 Jan 2010, Mag Gam wrote:

> I am trying to rsync some files from ext3 to fat32 pen drive. What is
> the correct way to do this?
> 
> I am currently using, --progress -av --no-o --no-g --exclude '*iso' /ext3 /fat32
> 
> Are there any other options I should consider?

--modify-window=2 may help, as fat stores times in 2-second resolution.
And perhaps --max-size=4GiB-1 as fat can't store files 4GB and larger.

Paul


More information about the rsync mailing list