> The trouble here is that i am using the "vfat" option when mounting the
"fat32" drive.
> If I was mounting as msdos shouldn't i see msdos "short" filenames
"abcdef~1.txt" )?
> What i get is filenames like "abcdefgh.txt" instead of
"abcdefghijklmnop.txt"
You should see ~1 names if you were mounting as msdos only... but when
mounting vfat partitions, there's an option called nonumtail which does what
you describe... you might want to try forcing that off... put nonumtail=0
in your fstab and remount to see if that helps. Did you mention what kernel
version/distribution you're using?
> If you guy's still think msdos mounting is the case, can you suggest how i
can determine if it is so?
> besides checking "fstab" entries which are using "vfat".
type mount by itself... you should see a list of partitions, and what
filesystems they use, though I doubt it would be mounted msdos if fstab says
vfat (unless you don't have the vfat code compiled into your
kernel/modules?).
