Hi Sune, I'm writing in regard to the very old -- but very important -- bug about case-sensitive automounting of FAT-formatted devices.
My main purpose in writing is to attract a little attention to this bug. A second purpose is to describe a workaround that spares the life of users' USB flash-drives. I've noticed that placing the following line in my /etc/fstab file: /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 auto rw,user,noauto,exec 0 0 and running: mkdir /media/sda1 mounts a FAT-formatted USB flash drive case-insensitive: [ Fri 11-Sep-2009 11.29 eric ] ~ $ mount /dev/sda1 [ Fri 11-Sep-2009 11.30 eric ] ~ $ mount ... /dev/sda1 on /media/sda1 type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=eric) [ Fri 11-Sep-2009 11.30 eric ] ~ $ [ Fri 11-Sep-2009 11.30 eric ] ~ $ cd /media/sda1 [ Fri 11-Sep-2009 11.30 eric ] sda1 $ [ Fri 11-Sep-2009 11.30 eric ] sda1 $ echo hello > hello.txt [ Fri 11-Sep-2009 11.30 eric ] sda1 $ echo hello > Hello.txt bash: Hello.txt: File exists [ Fri 11-Sep-2009 11.30 eric ] sda1 $ [ Fri 11-Sep-2009 11.30 eric ] sda1 $ ls -l total 12 -rwxr-xr-x 1 eric eric 6 2009-09-11 11:30 hello.txt ... [ Fri 11-Sep-2009 11.31 eric ] sda1 $ In regard to the KDE question (i.e. automounting a USB drive upon insertion) ... The /etc/fstab line above does not prevent automounting. The difference is that the /etc/fstab line above will mount the device case insensitive. Have a great weekend, - Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org