On 2009-09-06 21:07 +0200, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > I recently encountered a problem others have run into before - the > default behavior on Linux of converting short, uppercase filenames on > vfat partitions to lower case. Every time I mounted a disk with a > vfat partition on it, a directory with an uppercase name suddenly had > a lowercase name, and a script (which relied on its remaining upper > case) failed.
Why does it not find the name? VFAT is case-insensitive, after all. > It turns out that vfat partitions on Linux, for reasons I cannot > fathom, default to "shortname=lower", shortname being an option which > determines how shortnames of the 8.3 type are stored.[1] I think the reason is readability; at least I would find directory listings where many filenames have only uppercase letters annoying and hard to read. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
