In your /etc/fstab, put vfat instead of msdos or whatever

  Bendik

On 07-Aug-98 Lambermont, David wrote:
> When accessing files on one of my FAT partitions in Linux, I'm seeing
> the 8.3 file names instead of the LFN.  This has been particularly
> maddening after downloading a slew of tar files while running NT (each
> file with *nearly* identical 35 character names), and then booting into
> Linux to untar...
> 
> Any advice for viewing VFAT long file names from within Linux?  As soon
> as I get my cable modem working in Linux, this will probably become
> moot.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dave
> 
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> David Lambermont
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