On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 1998 at 01:24:33AM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Can anybody of you please explain to me (hopeless newbie) why > > > when I can't see long filenames on mounted msdos partition? This > > > causes me some pain in the neck as I can't freely manipulate files > > > between linux and dos... > > > > Since linux assumes that an MSDOS file system is to be operatable even when > > it > > does not mounted by Linux, it doesn't want to intefer with MSDOS file > > system > > too much. There for, when mounting an MSDOS file system, Linux stickes with > > the MSDOS rules. > > But, being aware to the limitations of an MSDOS file system, I believe that > > Linux tries to make long names short in a consistent and unique way. > > Perhaps the easiest way when dealing with files that lives both on an MSDOS > > file system and on "linux" file system is to determine thier names in the > > 8.3 > > format from the beginning. > > Huh? The vfat file system does long filenames on Windows partitions > just fine! You seem to be using an invalid domain name again btw.
Yes, you can have long file names on a vfat filesystem. But you can't have long filenames on an msdos filesystem. Scandisk from MS-DOS 6.x (and probably other programs, too) generates a whole lot of errors if you use it on a vfat partition, so you shouldn't use long filenames on a partition that you also use with MS-DOS 6.x (or earlier versions). You can add long filenames to an msdos filesystem at any time. Just unmount it and re-mount it as vfat. Remco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]