martinko wrote:

Dmitry Mityugov wrote:

On 9/27/05, martinko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...

hello,

when i mount a fat32 partition some files have different case (see
below) then in windows. how come ??

e.g.:

$ ll
-rwxr-x---  1 root  wheel    734 Mar  1  2005 a.txt
-rwxr-x---  1 root  wheel    649 Mar 16  2003 A.txt~
-rwxr-x---  1 root  wheel   1110 Mar 27  2003 b.txt
-rwxr-x---  1 root  wheel   2980 Jun  6 23:46 c.txt
-rwxr-x---  1 root  wheel   2475 Mar  1  2005 C.txt~
-rwxr-x---  1 root  wheel   2563 Jun 10 12:49 d.txt
-rwxr-x---  1 root  wheel   2561 Jun 10 12:42 D.txt~
-rwxr-x---  1 root  wheel   1015 Jun  7 00:25 e.txt
-rwxr-x---  1 root  wheel    681 Mar 16  2003 E.txt~
-rwxr-x---  1 root  wheel    602 Mar 16  2003 f.txt
-rwxr-x---  1 root  wheel    421 Mar 16  2003 g.txt

in windows all the files above have first letter in uppercase, that is
"A.txt" for instance.


sorry if i didn't make myself clear. -- ALL the file names above should have their first letter, and only the first letter, in upper case. that's how they were named in windows. but as you can see above, freebsd does not show them properly as some of them are shown in lowercase (e.g. "a.txt" instead of "A.txt").

why??

Because FAT32 is a case-insensitive file system. Don't confuse how Windows explorer shows you the file name with how the file name is actually stored on the file system.

--Alex

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