Using rootcopy on NTFS with NTFS3 driver

[babam]

Good news for NTFS users, the NTFS3 driver supports POSIX so we can take full advantage of the rootcopy feature.

Notes:
CONFIG_NTFS3_FS_POSIX_ACL must be enabled.

I personally don't like and don't use rootcopy, I use changes with changes-ro.

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guest@porteus:/tmp $ uname -r
5.14.10-porteus
guest@porteus:/tmp $ lsmod | grep ntfs
ntfs3                 184320  1
guest@porteus:/tmp $ egrep 'ntfs|images/changes' /proc/mounts 
/dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2 ntfs3 rw,noatime,nodiratime,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=37777600000,dmask=37777600000,iocharset=utf8,force,prealloc 0 0
/dev/loop50 /mnt/live/memory/images/changes btrfs rw,noatime,nodiratime,compress=zstd:8,space_cache,subvolid=5,subvol=/ 0 0
guest@porteus:/tmp $

[Rapha_]

Good news for NTFS users, the NTFS3 driver supports POSIX so we can take full advantage of the rootcopy feature.

What do you mean ?

When copying files to the rootcopy folder using the cp command do not use the -a option and do not use root privileges if you copy files from /home/guest/* to rootcopy.

Why ?

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cp -r --parents /home/guest/Desktop /mnt/sdb2/rootcopy

What are these -r --parents for ?