On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 06:45:27PM -0400, J. Milgram wrote:
> I've got a jump drive that came formatted with a vfat (I think). Didn't
> look, just plugged it in, mounted it, everything fine.
>
> Except... when creating files, it seems to convert parts of filenames
> to lowercase, according to rules I have not been able to figure out.
>
> mount says:
> /dev/sda1 on /mnt/jump/a type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=me)
>
> Can someone point me to a place to read up on this? I've noticed this for
> years, of course, but never cared about it before.
Does the case matter? vfat is supposed to be case preserving but
insensitive, right? The rules for file creation is by application...
The man page on mount (look for "Mount options for vfat") has a little
bit of info about this. For example, by default you can't create two
files where the names are the same save for the case ("FOO" v. "foo").
- Rob
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