In the last episode (Nov 05), Zhihui Zhang said:
> I have two FAT floppy that I used to transfer files between FreeBSD
> and Windows. One can show longer file names, the one cannot. What
> format command (on FreeBSD or Windows) does this trick (i.e. choose
> FAT32)? I want to reformat the floppy that does not show longer than
> eight names. Thanks.
If a floppy has only short names, mount_msdos assumes it's a DOS floppy
and will not generate long names when you create files on it. You can
force it by mounting the floppy with the -l option, or you can put a
long filename on the floppy with a Windows machine, which should cause
BSD to use long filenames the next that floppy is mounted. You don't
need to reformat.
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