reassign 320696 pmount
Thanks,
On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 07:00:24PM +0100, Will Thompson wrote:
> When plugging in a device with a fat32 partition, it is mounted with
> (among other things) -o iocharset=utf8 . This does Bad Things, as this
> message from mount (which g-v-m doesn't display) shows:
>
> FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems,
> filesystem will be case sensitive!
>
> Sure enough, this causes problems when transferring files to the drive.
> I think these stem from modern FAT's reluctance to have all-caps
> filenames, so these get silently lowercased, breaking my cp -r when the
> directory "A" becomes "a". (This is mostly a guess, since the behaviour
> is simply erratic.)
pmount and pmount-hal are doing the actual mounting. But iirc there was a good
reason to use utf-8 for FAT too..
Sjoerd
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