Is there a way I can mount NTFS and VFAT partitions and make them case-insensitive? Somehow I installed Linux this time around and it's all case sensitive. Argh.

Thanks in advance!

Oh and I'm running Fedora Core 12 on this system... and putting "check=r" in fstab doesn't seem to work at all. Nor does "mount /dev/xxx /mnt/x -o check=r".

Uh, more edits. Wow. In an NTFS filesystem I am able to create both a "games" and "GAMES" directory. I thought NTFS was case aware but not case sensitive. Huh?

That's interesting... how will windows treat this?.. The only possible explanation i have is that ntfs-3g uses POSIX namespace feature of NTFS, which among other features gives you the ability to use characters restricted in windows (?:\ etc.)

Edit: Yes, i'm right: http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs...osixfilenames1

Yeah but how do I fix it so I can have case insensitivity on vfat and ntfs again?

I did not have this problem until RH 12. Argh.

Read the link. A workaround is given there.

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Oh my God. What a mess of a workaround. I wish I hadn't upgraded from FC11 now. I didn't have this problem then.

Sigh. Okay. Here's the solution for techies. Don't try this if you're not a stuntm^H^H^H^H^H^Hsavvy linux user.

Set up your ntfs directory as some kind of share. Say, the /etc/fstab entry is
UUID=xxxxxx /mnt/1 ntfs defaults 0 0
your ip address (discover this via ifconfig) is 192.168.1.5
and you shared your filesystem as "system" in samba. (I'll keep it a simple example.)
and you have a network share mountpoint /mnt/ntfsblah1

You would type (as root?)
mount -t cifs -o nocase //192.168.1.5/system/mnt/1 /mnt/ntfsblah1

to automount this in /etc/fstab you'd write
//192.168.1.5/system/mnt/1 /mnt/ntfsblah1 cifs rw,nocase,passwd=<your samba share access password> 0 0

if you have no network share access password (probably because your family writes their passwords on STICKYNOTES!!!) then just make it "passwd=" and leave it at that and it'll work anyway.

This is how it works for me, anyway.