Package: gnome-volume-manager Version: 1.2.1-1 Severity: important When plugging in a device with a fat32 partition, it is mounted with (among other things) -o iocharset=utf8 . This does Bad Things, as this message from mount (which g-v-m doesn't display) shows:
FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive! Sure enough, this causes problems when transferring files to the drive. I think these stem from modern FAT's reluctance to have all-caps filenames, so these get silently lowercased, breaking my cp -r when the directory "A" becomes "a". (This is mostly a guess, since the behaviour is simply erratic.) My workaround for this issue has been to use udev to make a differently-named node for this particular device, and give it an entry in fstab which has a sane iocharset. This does, however, defy the point of gnome-volume-manager. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-talkie-splash Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages gnome-volume-manager depends on: ii dbus-1 0.23.4-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii dbus-glib-1 0.23.4-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii gconf2 2.10.0-2 GNOME configuration database syste ii hal 0.4.8-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.1-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libbonobo2-0 2.10.0-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui2-0 2.8.1-2 The Bonobo UI library ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgconf2-4 2.10.0-2 GNOME configuration database syste ii libglade2-0 1:2.5.1-2 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.5-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome2-0 2.8.1-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.10.2-2 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomeui-0 2.8.1-3 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.8.4-4 The GNOME virtual file-system libr ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.8-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libhal0 0.4.8-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 Inter-Client Exchange library ii liborbit2 1:2.12.2-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System Session Management ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System protocol client li ii libxml2 2.6.16-7 GNOME XML library ii pmount 0.8-2 mount removable devices as normal ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime Versions of packages gnome-volume-manager recommends: ii gnome-media 2.8.0-0.4 Gnome 2 Media Utilities ii gthumb 3:2.6.3-1.1 an image viewer and browser for GN ii nautilus-cd-burner 2.8.7-3 CD Burning front-end for Nautilus ii totem 0.100-5 A simple media player for the Gnom -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
