[ubuntu-studio-users] Where do I suggest ideas for Ubuntu Studio?
Ralf Mardorf
ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Wed Oct 12 18:43:59 UTC 2016
On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 14:19:38 +0000 (UTC), Alex Armani wrote:
>Heya folks, I've a few ideas for how to make Linux better. They'd be
>useful for all Linux users, but I only install 64 bit Ubuntu Studio
>Releases on my GigStick {USB Hard Drive}. My first idea, is to include
>a filter on the filenames when writing to Windows partitions, to
>filter out any characters in the filename that will confuse Windows \
>Windows Users. Would this be easy to implement, or is it a lot more
>complicated than first sounds?
How does it improve Linux?
However, there are already options available.
[root at moonstudio ~]# man ntfs-3g | grep -A5 Compatibility
[snip]
Windows Filename Compatibility
NTFS supports several filename namespaces: DOS, Win32 and
POSIX. While the ntfs-3g driver handles all of them, it always creates
new files in the POSIX namespace for maximum portability and
interoperabil- ity reasons. This means that filenames are case
sensitive and all characters are allowed except '/' and '\0'. This is
perfectly legal on Windows, though some application may get confused.
The option win- dows_names may be used to apply Windows restrictions to
new file names.
[root at moonstudio ~]# man mount | grep -A12 nls
nls=name
New name for the option earlier called iocharset.
utf8 Use UTF-8 for converting file names.
uni_xlate={0|1|2}
For 0 (or `no' or `false'), do not use escape sequences
for unknown Unicode characters. For 1 (or `yes' or `true') or
2, use vfat-style 4-byte escape sequences starting with ":".
Here 2 give a little-endian encoding and 1 a byteswapped
bigendian encoding.
posix=[0|1]
If enabled (posix=1), the filesystem distinguishes
between upper and lower case. The 8.3 alias names are presented
as hard links instead of being suppressed. This option is
obsolete.
>Where is the best place to suggest ideas for Ubuntu Studio?
Add a feature request to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntustudio
Regards,
Ralf
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