All,
I have a USB flash drive and when I open it on my desktop Linux box I can't see the long filenames. All I see are the short 8.3 filenames.

I have Joliet turned on in the FS section of my kernel config under ISO9660 CDROM file system support. My laptop (a Morphix install) has no problem seeing the long names on the drives but I can't figure out whats different between that kernel / modules and mine. Please help.

here's the relevant lines from 'messages'

Mar 7 21:34:35 localhost kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:0f.0-1, assigned address 6
Mar 7 21:34:35 localhost kernel: usb-storage: act_altsettting is 0
Mar 7 21:34:35 localhost kernel: usb-storage: id_index calculated to be: 93
Mar 7 21:34:35 localhost kernel: usb-storage: Array length appears to be: 95
Mar 7 21:34:35 localhost kernel: usb-storage: USB Mass Storage device detected
Mar 7 21:34:35 localhost kernel: usb-storage: Endpoints: In: 0xf2fb0480 Out: 0xf2fb0494 Int: 0xf2fb04a8 (Period 1)
Mar 7 21:34:35 localhost kernel: usb-storage: Found existing GUID 0ea0680368885616386cf7f0
Mar 7 21:34:35 localhost kernel: WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
Mar 7 21:34:35 localhost kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 6

thanks in advance,
jpbarto

how are you mounting the drive?

with usb-storage loaded:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/minidisk

I don't have it put into fstab or anything yet.

Try using -t vfat as an option in case it is mounting it as a some kind of dos fat drive or something.

Thank you jtshaw, I don't know why I didn't think of that. Just using the bare mount command, what filesystem was it using, and why didn't it detect the vfat nature of the memory drive?

Thanks for the help,
Sincerely,
jpbarto