Re: MSDOS/FAt32 filesystem

Sunday, 30 April 2006


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(a)hughes.net&gt; 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.

	Mike
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