MSDOS/FAt32 filesystem

[Geoffrey Leach]

On 04.30 19:06, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> > On 04.30 18:30, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> >> On 4/30/06, Geoffrey Leach <geoff at hughes.net> wrote:
> >>> I discovered that while a MSDOS/FAt32 filesystem can be mounted
> and
> >>> accessed as nature intended, the file names are modified.  This
> does
> >>> not create a problem (they are correct when accessed from Windoze)
> >>> unless the files are restored from a backup created under FC.
> Does
> >>> anyone know of a workaround for this problem?
> >>>
> >>
> >> what do you mean the file names are modified?
> >
> > For example, "MyDocuments" shows up as mydocu~1
> >
> What did you use to back things up? It sounds like it you only
> backed up the 8.3 names, and not the long file names. (Or you
> mounted the partition as fat instead of vfat for ether the backup or
> the restore...)

FStype msdos, not vfat as it should have been.  Thanks.