Capital letters in (windows) file names on Fedora 9

[Peter Langfelder]

Hi,

I figured it out. The portable disk is indeed a vfat. Here's what
mount has to say about it:

/dev/sdb1 on /media/LaCie type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,uid=500)

This setting was converting some file names to lower case. I looked at
my FC6 laptop and there's one more crucial option,

shortname=winnt.

Adding that to my configuration via config-editor solved the problem.

Thanks for your time,

Peter

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 19:44 -0700, Peter Langfelder wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just installed F9 on my desktop machine and am running into a
>> problem when trying to transfer files from a windows system. Here's a
>> bit of background: I used to switch back and forth between a linux
>> (FC6) laptop and a windows desktop, transferring my work files back
>> and forth using a USB stick and rsync. All capital letters are
>> properly recognized in F6, so when I create a file Temp.R on Windows,
>> it shows as Temp.R on my FC6 laptop. In F9, however, some filenames
>> are being converted to lowercase (I suspect those that were created on
>> Windows..); for example, the file may show up as temp.r. The converted
>> file names are being displayed both in
>> File Browser windows as well as in terminal (such as seen by ls or rsync).
>>
>> Is there any way to make the system recognize the case the way FC6
>> did? Is this some setting in the automatic recognition and mounting of
>> file systems? A proper file name recognition from Windows is very
>> important... I'd hate to have to downgrade the system so I get this
>> functionality back.
> ----
> vfat file system? what mount options are in place?
>
> probably if you show us output of 'mount' command, that may be useful
>
> It would make sense that you test things so you don't have to guess
> where/when things break down.
>
> make 2 new folders - say files-from-home and files-from-work
>
> and put a couple of files from your home system into the files-from-home
> folder and see how they're named when you get to work and reverse the
> process.
>
> for S&G's, I plugged in my external USB drive that is formatted vfat...
> /dev/sdb1 on /media/120G-HD type vfat
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,uid=500)
>
> and the file names seemed to be proper/case mixed as expected.
>
> Craig
>
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