Markus Heidelberg wrote:
> Charles Campbell, 29.12.2008:
>   
>> Tom Link wrote:
>>     
>>>> When I try to rename a file 1.PDF to 1.pdf, then I find the file got lost! 
>>>> I
>>>> can't find it any other where. But I have backup them up with lucky.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> [..]
>>>
>>> You might have more luck by using some command line tool for this, I
>>> presume.
>>>   
>>> [..]
>>>   
>>>       
>> I'll have to try this out -- I don't have a linux box with a fat32 
>> mounted drive immediately available
>>     
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=fat32.img bs=4k count=10k
> mkfs.vfat -F 32 fat32.img
> mkdir mount
> mount -o loop,umask=000 fat32.img mount/   # as root
> cd mount
> touch file1.PDF
> vim .
>
> Then renaming with 'R' to file1.pdf or similar deletes the file.
>   
Thanks -- although I already knew how to make a fat32 partition -- there 
are reasons why I don't want to make a fat32 partition on the machine 
I'm currently working with.

Regards,
Chip Campbell



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