USB filetranfer name chop

Doolspin · 04-21-2005, 09:55 PM

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.