Re: case sensitive in mounted USB disk

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell gmail com>]

On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 14:08, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 08:54:04AM -0600, Guy Fraser wrote:
> > > Yeah, but scroll on down to the mount options for vfat. Vfat is a hack
> > > which allows filenames longer than the old fat 8.3 format -- and while
> > > it's not case-sensitive, it *is* case-preserving. There's options for
> > > exactly how to deal with that.
> > It may not always be case-preserving on 8.3 or shorter filenames.
> 
> Yeah, and the options help to deal with that. But it is *clearly* all a
> kludge.

Unfortunately there is no universal filesystem format that preserves
all attributes, so if you want to move the drive around among windows,
linux, mac, etc. machines you have to deal with some sort of kludge.

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  Les Mikesell
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