VFAT file attribute

SloppyO · 09-10-2001, 03:52 AM

Does anyone know how to keep VFAT file attribute?
Say I make a copy of IO.SYS on my Win98 partition C: to D:
which are my /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda5 under Linux. Using
commands like
cp -a and/or
mcopy
After reboot into DOS there is no Hidden, System and Read-Only
attributes associated with the new file d:\io.sys. Anybody know why/How?

ascii2k · 09-10-2001, 11:13 AM

I'm not positive about this but I highly doubt that Linux would recognize DOS file properties. Furthermore, Win 98 doesn't use VFAT it uses FAT/FAT32. Whatever the diferences are between these two couold be enough to prevent file properties from showing up across systems.

linuxcool · 09-10-2001, 11:24 PM

According to the man page for mcopy, the p option preserves the attributes.

mcopy -p file _to_copy

For cp, it's the same option p

cp -p file _to_copy

I don't know if this option for cp will work to preserve attributes for vfat files.