Hi,
I'm having problems with l.c./u.c. filenames using Tom's rtbt. I remember
having the same difficulty w RH v.5.2 in 1998. I have not experienced it
since. I cannot remember whether I have ever noticed it with different
versions of Tom's rtbt:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt # a FAT32 W98 disk
mount -t ext2 /dev/hdd1 /fl # a ext2 Linux iomega zip disk
mkdir /mnt/Yellow
cd /mnt/Yellow
cp -vr /fl/* .
All files get copied across from the zip disk to the hard drive. Upon
scrutiny using ls the files and their names seem to have copied across
without a hitch. There is one phenomenon that one would expect with a
FAT32 target drive: if a directory on the zip disk contains both
filename1
and
Filename1
then only one of these is copied across (in all cases it seemed to be the
u.c. variant; I don't know whether this would always happen).
Then reboot the FAT32 drive (Windows 98) and move to \Yellow\ Those
names in other than 8.3 format as in
This-is-quite.a.LONG-name.tar.gz
are preserved absolutely. However, those names that are (i.e. could be
thought to be) 8.3 all come across as upper case
README.TXT formerly readme.txt
LOGISTQ formerly logistQ
HOME formerly the directory home
Apologies if I am doing something daft with mount .. or with cp ..
[I searched the archive for cp, filename, case.]
Thank you very much, if you can help.
Fergus
