On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 19:36:05 +0200 "N-0-X (http://noxistes.org)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello. > I just spend I afternoon (it was planned, dont' worry ;-) ) copying > files from an old computer to a recent computer using a USB key. I was > copying photos, that often had the same first eight characters and > FreeSBIE (that was on the CD) would say that the file already exists. > Here's an exemple: let's say a file is called 'thing_number1.txt' and > an other file is called 'thing_number2.txt'. If I want to copy those > two files on a USB device (I didn't try it on an other hard drive), > then is OS says that the file already exists! In fact, an 'ls' of the > device shows that the only file present is: "thing_n.txt". The > extansion is there, but the file name is shortenned. > Is that a bug of my FreeSBIE release, a bug of my USB device (which > was, I presume because mounted on /mnt/dos.3/, in vfat), or some other > bug? I think it is due to the 8+3 file name limits of the msdos file system. You may want to mount your usb key with -o longnames option, or just create a tar.gz file before copying it to the usb key: tar czf short.tgz /path/to/source/files cp short.tgz /mnt/dos.3 marco -- FreeSBIE mailing list (http://www.freesbie.org)
