case sensitive in mounted USB disk

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Wed Jun 1 19:08:25 UTC 2005


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.

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