case sensitive in mounted USB disk

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 04:26:55PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> >Yes, I understand Fat is case insensitive. As Matthew suggested, I want 
> >the upper case file names showing in uppper case.
> The FAT translation is all lower case.  Sorry.  There are three levels
> of "pickyness" as to equivalency, but uppercase characters are displayed
> in lower case AFAIK.  See the "Mount options for fat" in the mount(8)
> manpage.

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.

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