VFAT is case insensitive?!

Alvin Thompson alvin-ubuntu at thompsonlogic.com
Fri Sep 16 16:49:24 UTC 2005


hi,

i just installed another breezy machine, and i have the most peculiar
problem. during the install, i created a VFAT partition, and all was
well. now, i noticed that all of the '8.3' filename compliant files i
put on this partition were showing up in lowercase. i added
'shortname=mixed' to fstab and now the files show up in the correct
case, but still i can access the files in a case-insensitive way. the
fstab entry is the same as i've always used:

/dev/hda3 /data vfat rw,noexec,quiet,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

i've never had this problem with my other breezy installs. what's going
on? what am i missing? how do i fix it? help!

thanks,
alvin


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