Re: problem while moving HOME from FreeBSD to MacOS with bsdtar

Reply: Matthias Apitz : "Re: problem while moving HOME from FreeBSD to MacOS with bsdtar"
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From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve_at_sohara.org>
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2023 08:18:35 UTC

On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 08:43:28 +0100
Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote:

> I have had to move in my office from a FreeBSD in a VM to a Mac.
> To not loose my HOME I created a tar archive on FreeBSD and restored it
> with tar into the Mac (all details about versions see below). The tar
> archive contains a lot of dirs and file (~30.000) and one dir is
> guru/Mail where a mbox file guru/Mail/purism exists. It also exists a
> plain file guru/mail (note: the dir is with capital M). This leads on

	You seem to have the default case insensitive filesystem setup on
MacOS, you can change it - more details here:

https://support.apple.com/en-ie/guide/disk-utility/dsku19ed921c/mac

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>