martinko wrote:
Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
martinko wrote:
Dmitry Mityugov wrote:
On 9/27/05, martinko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
hello,
when i mount a fat32 partition some files have different case (see
below) then in windows. how come ??
e.g.:
$ ll
-rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 734 Mar 1 2005 a.txt
-rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 649 Mar 16 2003 A.txt~
-rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 1110 Mar 27 2003 b.txt
-rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 2980 Jun 6 23:46 c.txt
-rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 2475 Mar 1 2005 C.txt~
-rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 2563 Jun 10 12:49 d.txt
-rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 2561 Jun 10 12:42 D.txt~
-rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 1015 Jun 7 00:25 e.txt
-rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 681 Mar 16 2003 E.txt~
-rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 602 Mar 16 2003 f.txt
-rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 421 Mar 16 2003 g.txt
in windows all the files above have first letter in uppercase, that is
"A.txt" for instance.
sorry if i didn't make myself clear. -- ALL the file names above
should have their first letter, and only the first letter, in upper
case. that's how they were named in windows. but as you can see
above, freebsd does not show them properly as some of them are shown
in lowercase (e.g. "a.txt" instead of "A.txt").
why??
Because FAT32 is a case-insensitive file system. Don't confuse how
Windows explorer shows you the file name with how the file name is
actually stored on the file system.
--Alex
ok. unfortunately i forgot most of my knowledge from the old days of
ms-dos but what i can say even without it is this -- it's not about
windows explorer only. i can see the correct file names in all
applications (under windows of course), i believe. and if windows knows
whether there should be an "A" or "a" then why freebsd cannot?
martin
ps: and, btw, how freebsd knows there's a capital A in "A.txt~" ?
because it's stored on the filesystem in that way, i guess. being
case-insensitive doesn't (necessarily) mean a FS doesn't keep a case,
imho.
The reason is as follows: a.txt is an 8.3 filename and is stored on
fat32 in the old dos format. a.txt~ is NOT an 8.3 filename and is
stored on fat32 in the extended long filename format. Case information
is not stored in 8.3's file names. They're always the same case, but I
can't remember now if they're stored as upper or lower case. Extended
long filenames do store case information, even though windows ignores
the case (as was pointed out earlier). FreeBSD is displaying 8.3 names
as lowercase probably to mimic the tendency of unix filenames to be
lowercase. Windows displays 8.3 names as upper case probably to mimic dos.
Later,
Micah
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