Your floppy disk was not formatted with vfat support, so you don't get
long filename support outside of Windows on them.

On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, hassan boulmarouf wrote:

> hello,
>
> i've used windows95 to copy some files with long names
> on a floppy.
> Under linux the file names are just 8 characters long.
> the first six characters of the original name followed
> by "~1".
> and this happens only for floopy files, my long file
> names on the hard drive are well supported.
>
> what can i do to have my linux support long file names
> on the floopy disk ?
>
> thank you in advance.
>
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