Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dan Purgert Newsgroups: alt.os.linux Subject: Re: When I back-up .... Coping my Entire Internal HD to an external HD Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 08:57:11 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <5kv5alxctp.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 09:57:13 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="cc00fe40f871d5c0709a2b39e6f8eaca"; logging-data="3986963"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+j4NIt/WWaNifAQQDqHcw1s5+4cjvU3cg=" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jeuV5duzullzG1N89ncIQBQo9hs= Xref: csiph.com alt.os.linux:81123 On 2025-03-15, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 04:02:15 -0400, Paul wrote: > >> For a period of time, one of the Windows OSes decided to stop >> listing filesystems that did not need "Safely Remove" behavior, but >> the changes to that OS may have been reversed. > > That’s the thing. Windows is full of assumptions as to which kinds of > devices are allowed to have which kinds of filesystems installed on them, > which kinds are to be hot-pluggable and which are not. > > For example, are you allowed to put NTFS on a hot-pluggable volume? > Somehow, I don’t think so. Practically every USB stick in existence would like to disagree. -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 70E5 4CE7 2860