does fat32 preserve directory name case?

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 04:24:13PM +0200, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> mkdir in my home directory works fine, but as soon as I try to do the
> same in my fat32 partition it fails. Is this normal?

Yes, this is normal. FAT32 is a case-insensitive filesystem. You can use
the shortname= mount option to arrange to store long names (which at
least preserve case, although you still can't create files which differ
only in case unless you also use the posix mount option); see the
mount(8) man page.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]