On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 02:21:14PM -0600, Gordon Shaw Novak wrote: > I have a dual-boot system with Debian and Windows ME. > When I access files from /windows/ , it seems that file names get > shortened and "edited" as seen by Linux;
I think I'm reading this right... if you mean already existing files created in windows, appear shortened when mounted under linux: make sure you mount the file system as type vfat, otherwise only the "length 8 name"."length 3 extension" is used, but otherwise Linux is capable of doing the same conversion from shortname to long names as windows does. if it is mounted as vfat and is still doing this, let us know, we'll investigate further... > also files created from > Linux sometimes get converted to upper-case on Windows. > Is there a way to make the file names appear unchanged? > hrmm, thats strange... especially the sometimes part, any idea if there is any situation like files created by emacs? or something like that that is reproduceable.. or follows a trend? > Also, I seem to be able to write to /windows/ only from root, > and haven't been able to change the protections. Is there a way > to do that? if you put the option user in the fourth field of the /etc/fstab then any user can mount the filesystem, and whoever mounts a FAT partition is who gets to have the permissions to work with those files. -Omar > Many thanks, Gordon > _______________________________________________ > Siglinux mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
