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Old 11-21-2004, 11:05 PM   #1
saravkrish
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weird problem with FAT32 in FC1


Hi all,

I have been using FC1 for a long time now and I could say I'm not a newbie. Below is an exact copy-paste from a terminal window

Code:
[sarav@r2d2 images]$ ls
FC1-CDs
[sarav@r2d2 images]$ mkdir FC2-DVD
[sarav@r2d2 images]$ ls
FC1-CDs  fc2-dvd
[sarav@r2d2 images]$
I don't know why the FC2-DVD dir is getting created as a all lowercase dir. It's not that I haven't stored uppercase or mixed case filenames in the FAT32 partition before. Infact the ls shows an example for a mixed case filename. Anyone know what is happening here! I'm totally lost.... have never seen such an unexplainable problem before.

The _only_ thing I could call as unusual today was me trying to copy a > 2GB file to FAT32 and FC1 doesn't seem to allow that. Had something to do with using signed file pointers inside the kernel. The actual file size limit on FAT32 is 4GB. I have some 2.3 GB files in the same partition, so I know it can store > 2GB. But thats not the main problem now...

Some one please tell me whats happening with the weird filename behavior. I even tried unmounting and mounting the FAT32 partition - didn't work!

Thanks,
Sarav
 
Old 11-22-2004, 08:13 AM   #2
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FAT32 still uses Microsoft's case-insensitive 8.3 filenames; only lower-case letters are allowed.

The only way you can store capital letters in filenames is to associate a “long filename” with the file (or directory); the Linux driver only does this if it can't render the filename in less than 8.3 (eight characters or fewer with an extension of three characters or fewer). This actually names the file something like “fc2-dv~1.” and then creates a seperate entry in the directory's contents for the proper filename. (The reason for this is efficiency; it takes longer to look up a long name than to look up the 8.3 name, because it's not stored with the file properly).

The easiest way around this problem would be to rename the directory to something longer than 8 characters (to create a long filename), then rename it back with the correct name.
 
Old 11-22-2004, 09:16 AM   #3
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Then how do you explain FC1-CDs

Hi,

Then how do you explain FC1-CDs ? Its 7 characters long and still is mixed case!

Thanks,
Sarav
 
Old 11-27-2004, 04:10 PM   #4
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It has a long filename associated with the file, in which the capitalisation is stored.

However, if you try and create a directory with this name using vfat, I think that it will not associate a long filename with it, and you will get a lower-case (or uppercase) directory name.

There's more information about vfat and FAT32 in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
 
Old 08-09-2007, 03:27 PM   #5
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Same problem

I tried renaming a directory named matlab to VERYLONGNAME and it successfully appeared in capital letters (all this in my FAT32 partition). Then when I renamed it to MATLAB it appeared again as matlab. Is there a way to use short file names in capital letters under Linux in a FAT32 partition ?

Thank you very much for checking this.
Dorian

Last edited by ibex; 08-09-2007 at 03:29 PM.
 
Old 09-06-2007, 09:38 AM   #6
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It worked for me:

Code:
[wangberg@solo NURACHI]$ mkdir MMMMMMMMM
[wangberg@solo NURACHI]$ ls
books          MMMMMMMMM                 Recycled
centos.backup  music.media               rui's pics & music
f              My Documents - Backed up  shapefile_geo94.zip
Incoming       ndiswrapper-1.37.tar.gz   System Volume Information
maps           new                       websites
[wangberg@solo NURACHI]$ mv MMMMMMMMM Mmmm
[wangberg@solo NURACHI]$ ls
books          Mmmm                      Recycled
centos.backup  music.media               rui's pics & music
f              My Documents - Backed up  shapefile_geo94.zip
Incoming       ndiswrapper-1.37.tar.gz   System Volume Information
maps           new                       websites
[wangberg@solo NURACHI]$
how are you renaming the file ? try the mv command.
 
  


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