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on 7/12/06 13:37, Tom Gidden at tom at gidden.net wrote:

> You sure about that?  I thought resource forks were stored
> in ._<filename> files... works for me.

True - works some of the time.

When I experimented with backing up to a FreeBSD box mounted over NFS, there
were quite a lot of issues - especially aliases and programmes. You really
shouldn't rely on the .-files when making backups.

> I must admit, I haven't found a happy compromise between the two.  I
> ended up saying "screw it" and HFSing my external drives.  If I need
> to plug them into a Windows box, then I'm largely buggered.

If you want to keep a FAT32 drive, just create a sparseimage on it (that is,
it's resizeable but only takes up the space you're using), and mount it.
Then you can save files you want to give to the PC on the disk itself, and
Mac-only files into the mounted disk image. A bit like partitioning the disk
into 2, only with live-resizeable partitions.

Oliver.