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Doolspin 04-21-2005 09:55 PM
USB filetranfer name chop
 
Anyone know why when I transfer something to my thumbdrive it chops the filename and turns it all upper-case?

mjrich 04-21-2005 11:56 PM
At a guess, mount is guessing the wrong filesystem for the thumdrive -- Umsdos rather than Vfat. Run mount (no arguments) after mounting your drive, and check what it's being mounted as.

Most likely, you'll need to change the thumbdrive entry in /etc/fstab from auto to vfat, e.g.
Code:
/dev/sda1    /usbdrive    vfat  rw,user,noauto,umask=0000  0  0
Cheers,

mj

mcleodnine 04-22-2005 01:51 AM
Yeah - some of the pendrives/MP3 players + kernel combos I've used in the past have assumed a FAT filesystem, causing the ever lovely MYFILE~1.TXT to be written :(

Use the fstab options mentioned above or just mount with 'mount -t vfat /dev/foo /mnt/target'

Doolspin 04-22-2005 02:52 PM
Thanks you two.


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