case sensitive in mounted USB disk

[Rick Stevens]

Yuandan Zhang wrote:
> Matthew Miller wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 07:44:12AM +1000, Yuandan Zhang wrote:
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>>> The FC3 hotplug aotumatically mounts  a USB disk. After mounted, It 
>>> become case insensitive, for example,
>>> I made a dir as 'mkdir SRC_1', if I ls it, it show src_1.
>>> How to mount the USB disk case sensitive?   
>>
>>
>> What filesystem is on the drive?
>>
>>  
>>
> It is FAT32, here is output from fdisk -l
> 
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 1463 MB, 1463648256 bytes
> 64 heads, 63 sectors/track, 709 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 = 2064384 bytes
> 
>   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1             1       709   1429312+   b  Win95 FAT32

Any FAT or NTFS (in fact, all DOS filesystems) are case insensitive.
Not a bug, that's the definition of the filesystems.
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