On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 08:47:34AM -0600, Guy Fraser wrote:
I use a USB/Firewirewire drive to hold all my MP3's. There are a
number of instances where file names change.
ALLUPPER.EXT => allupper.ext
A1234567.EXT => a1234567.ext
Abcdefgh.Ext => abcdefgh.ext
It seems that unless you have a non alphanumeric character and
the file name is 8 or less characters the filename is converted
to lowercase.
(man mount), search for "shortname=". Can that explain the
behavior?
File.EXT and File.ext would both be converted to file.ext and
would cause the conflict.
FAT is case-preserving, but case-insensitive. You
can't have two
files with the "same [case doesn't matter]" name.
Mirek