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?

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.

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 > 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...)

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?