strange directory problem

Ben Stringer ben at burbong.com
Sat Jul 22 05:47:34 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 15:37 +1000, Ben Stringer wrote:
> 
> 1) Is it an unusual (eg. Windows-centric) filesystem you are creating
> the directory on? It may not be a filesystem that supports case-senstive
> filenames. To test, try the same thing on an ext3 filesystem.

If this is the case, here is a good reference, and a solution, which is
to mount the filesystem with the option "shortname=mixed".

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/666745

Cheers, Ben

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