On Tuesday 21 November 2006 22:45, Peter Vollebregt wrote: > > Sir Robin > > > > On 20/11/06, Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sunday 19 November 2006 21:29, Miark wrote: > >> > On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 18:41:58 +0000, Ian wrote: > >> > > Before upgrading to 2007, I could copy files between > >> > > partitions easily. Now, if the folder I am copying is > >> > > uppercase, the files within don't get copied and give a "can't > >> > > write to" error. Does anyone know what has changed, and what > >> > > do I need to do to get back to how it used to work? I have > >> > > noticed that the folder will be lower case when copied , > >> > > regardless of case of the original. -- > >> > > >> > Are you dealing with a FAT or NTFS filesystem? > >> > >> It's a FAT32 partition. The error only happens with nested directories. > >> If I get the error, I enter the remote folder and can copy the files > >> to it. > >> The fault appears to be linked to the case of the folder . Hope that > >> makes > >> sense.
> Robin Turner schreef: > > I don't have an answer but a related problem that might shed some > > light: when I copied a directory tree from /home to /mnt/win, all file > > names were converted to uppercase. Again, this is FAT32, not NTFS. > > What are the settings for this partition in /etc/fstab? > > What you can do is t try to add the 'shortname=mixed' option to the > mount options because this enables linux to use lower- and uppercase. > As in: > /dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat umask=0,utf8=true,noatime,shortname=mixed 0 0 > > (Based on history i adopted the SuSE mountpoint /windows/C instead of > /mnt/......) Sorry, I appear to have a drive going pear shaped (hdb), so I'm transferring files to dvd at present. The behaviour was when copying from /home to /win_c2 .Both are on the hdb drive. FSTAB = /dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=utf8,sync 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat umask=0,user,iocharset=utf8,exec 0 0 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_c2 vfat umask=0,user,iocharset=utf8,exec 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,user,iocharset=utf8,exec 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Surfing happily on Mandriva 2007 No Micro$oft here -- 22:41:14 up 22:43, 1 user, load average: 2.28, 2.12, 2.52 ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
