[HOW] Changing FC3 file system to accept longer file names?

[Jay Paulson]

Here's what I have:

/dev/hda6               /home/httpd             ext3    defaults        
1 2

> 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