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On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 03:00 +0100, Benjamin A'Lee wrote: > > The filename isn't the issue; the error message says "failed to preserve > ownership", which is happening because it's a FAT filesystem that has no > way of storing user/group information. They can be ignored, as long as > you bear in mind that if/when you copy it back to a real filesystem > you'll have to fix the ownership. Thanks everyone plus off-list replies. This was confirmed by others. The copying certainly seemed to work. -- James Kilty http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html