[HOW] Changing FC3 file system to accept longer file names?
Gilboa Davara
gilboada at netvision.net.il
Thu Sep 15 14:39:49 UTC 2005
cat /etc/fstab or cat /proc/mounts
Gilboa
On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 09:29 -0500, Jay Paulson wrote:
> The one that is giving me problems is 32 characters long. I'm moving
> it from my Mac OSX machine to the FC3 machine. I have no idea if the
> file system is fat/fat32/ext3 etc. How do I find this out so I can let
> you know?
>
> thanks,
> jay
>
> > Who long are the file names?
> > To what FS are you trying to move the files to? ext3? fat/fat32?
> > As far as I remember, ext3 filenames are limited to 255 characters.
> >
> > Gilboa
> >
> > On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 09:12 -0500, Jay Paulson wrote:
> >> I was wondering how do I get the FC3 file system to accept longer file
> >> names? I have a few files that are X characters long on my Mac OSX
> >> machine and when I move the files over to my FC3 system I get the
> >> error
> >> of the file being too many characters and to rename it. The problem
> >> is
> >> I can't rename these files for whatever reason. Help!
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> jay
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