MSDOS/FAt32 filesystem

[Geoffrey Leach]

On 04.30 19:02, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 18:54 -0700, 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
> 
> 	Mount the file system as vfat and NOT msdos!  You're mounting
> it as the
> wrong FS type.  Vfat supports the MS hack for long file systems that
> does not exist in the msdos file system.  They're the same basic file
> system at heart but, if you mount it as msdos, you will only see the
> raw
> 8.3 msdos file names and not the extended vfat filenames.

Ah Hah!  Learn something new every day.  Thanks, Mike.