[aklug] Re: Problem verification

From: barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net>
Date: Tue Jun 30 2009 - 21:26:02 AKDT

Quoting barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net>:

> I have a USB mounted device that is mounted as VFAT. When trying to
> create a directory as all caps, for example:
>
> mkdir ABBA
>
> it creates a directory with all lower case
>
> However, if I do:
>
> mkdir ABBa
>
> It will create the directory as expected.
>
> Can anyone confirm that this happens to them?
>

Replying to my own message, I found this:

http://www.osnews.com/story/9681/The_vfat_file_system_and_Linux/page2/

so gotta set shortname=mixed in my mount options....sheesh.

Mike B.

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