[geeks] back to MacOS X

[David Cantrell]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 04:50:19PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [FAT to NTFS conversion]
> 
> All I want to know is if you do a fresh install direct to NTFS is it
> bit-for-bit identical to a fresh install done direct to FAT and then
> "upgraded" to NTFS?  Even "bit-for-bit" is a bit of an over-statement.
> I really only want to know if all the filesystem meta data (directories,
> permisssions, filenames, etc.) is identical -- i.e. in unix terms would
> "ls -lR" produce the same results when timestamps are ignored?

Ignoring the extra meta-data that NTFS has, yes.

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