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I'm having a problem with my USB flashdrive... filenames are restricted to 8 characters, plus ".xxx" where "xxx" is the file extension. filenames are all converted to lowercase.
This only happens on linux, and only on my home system. Linux at school, OS X, and WindowsXP have no problems with filenames on the USB drive.
I'm guessing that my home configuration is reading the USB drive as some old file system (wasn't this naming scheme similar to and old DOS system?), but I don't know where or how to change it.
your system is mounting your drive like a FAT16 filesystem instead of FAT32. Just add "-t vfat" to your mount line, or in the options column in /etc/fstab
Ok, my fstab line for the USB device now looks like:
Code:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/USBflashdrive auto noauto,owner,rw,user,vfat 0 0
I get the following error:
Code:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
I got the same error when I tried with ufs... not sure what's going on... I haven't tried EVERY possible fs type, but maybe someone here knows a quicker way to fix it?
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