Thanks for the reply. With -t vfat I do not get long file names, period. I mis-spoke
earlier in stating that the filename that I created ealier is getting converted. I
should have said that the long filename for that file only is displayed when I mount
with -t vfat; everything else is the 8.3 format, including those lovely '~'s.
It is quite baffeling for me. Any other ideas?
Thanks.
-Gordon
Tom Oehser wrote:
>
> 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]
> >
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Gordon Chamberlin Software Architect
Visualize, Inc. http://www.visualizeinc.com
(602) 861-0999 ext. 14 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
