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   Jim Beard to Adam   
   Re: OT: Off-Topic   
   16 Jun 12 15:03:15   
   
   From: jdbeard@patriot.net   
      
   On 06/16/2012 02:46 PM, Adam wrote:   
      
   > I have a partition for automated nightly tarball backups on my   
   > external HD.  I'm going to change it to VFAT so it can be read by   
   > Windows or Mac.  This way, if my internal HD dies completely, I   
   > can bring the external HD to any other computer and retrieve my   
   > backups.   
      
   Do note you will lose a bunch of information on each file held in   
   the Inode, if you shift to VFAT.   
      
   Cheers!   
      
   jm b.   
      
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