I think you might be confused.
With long file names, the 8.3 *always* exists, *in addtion* to the long
name. When you mount with -t vfat, you see the long name. When you mount
with -t msdos, it is not _converting_ anything, it is just showing you the
other name, which is always there and has been there all along, the long
names are still there. The same thing happens when you run msdos - you
only see the short names and the long names are hidden, and if you update
or save a file, they get broken and lost. Just stay within -t vfat and
w95 or later and you'll be fine. Let me know if that doesn't solve the
issue...
-TOm
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Gordon Chamberlin wrote:
> Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 00:06:30 -0700
> From: Gordon Chamberlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [tomsrtbt] Long Filenames
>
> I love linux! Thank you Tom for tomsrtbt. Thanks for the help. My friend took the
>Netgear back to the store and a different friend loaned me an older LinkSys. I had
>it working within seconds.
>
> I'm in the middle of copying 350 Megs off of the laptop, using smbmount to access a
>linux fileserver with samba on it.
>
> Unfortunately, I only have the 8.3 filenames. I have tried the -t vfat option but
>to no avail.
>
> I used this sequence of commands to mount it:
> mkdir /tmp/hda1
> mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /tmp/hda1
>
> fdisk identifies the partition as Win95 FAT32.
>
> When mounting hda1 as vfat, I can create a long file/directory and have it preserved
>through a reboot. That long file name
> gets converted between 8.3 and long by unmounting and remounting the partition as
>msdos.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> -Gordon
> --
> Gordon Chamberlin Software Architect
> Visualize, Inc. http://www.visualizeinc.com
> (602) 861-0999 ext. 14 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
