Ian schreef: > 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/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 > > Question is how did you copy. Although i like konqueror very much i had a bad experience with copying and errors like you describe. That is how i found out the shortname=mixed option.
Try to copy via 'cp' or use 'mc' (midnight commander) if you want to use a graphical method that is different than konqueror. You can also change fstab and change the mount options (and remount). Maybe also the utf8 sequence makes it go wrong. I have had trouble elsewhere with character conversions. Peter V ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
