Microsoft-style filesystems do not support POSIX permissions and file ownership, and if you want to make backups of your system, then you need to have a filesystem that supports this POSIX information.
Please read the following two tutorials — they are long, but informative…
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PREAMBLE: THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
If you are new to the world of GNU/Linux ─ and especially if you come from the Microsoft Windows ecosystem ─ then you will undoubtedly have already noticed that GNU/Linux handles permissions and storage volumes quite differently from what you might be used to …
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1. INTRODUCTION
Microsoft Windows started its life as a graphical user interface on top of MS-DOS, a 16-bit single-user, single-tasking operating system that in turn originated as 86DOS, an unauthorized 16-bit rewrite (by Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer) of Digital Research’s originally 8-bit CP/M operating system. Both CP/M and MS-DOS were at the time developed for computers that did not support any other storage media than floppy disks.
Considering this legacy, Microsof…
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