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alkos333

11-17-2008 07:55 PM

Uppercase Directories renamed when copying to FAT32

Could somebody explain this? So I'm copying directories with uppercase letters in them to a FAT32 jump drive. How come some of them get changed to lowercase and others aren't? Why do they get changed to the lowercase anyway? http://alkos333.pastebin.com/f676227ec

dxqcanada

11-17-2008 08:25 PM

I am not sure why your directory names change case when you copy them to your FAT partition (jump drive) ... but files on a FAT partition are not case sensitive so it does not matter if they change.

Woodsman

11-17-2008 09:43 PM

Just a guess, but check the shortname option in man mount.

alkos333

11-17-2008 11:27 PM

Thank you both guys. Yes, FAT32 is case insensitive, but
rsync isn't, so I had to use shortname=winnt.

Everything works as needed now. Thank you!

alkos333

11-18-2008 10:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alkos333 (Post 3345873)

Everything works as needed now. Thank you!

For some reason rsync still deletes some of the folders (I'm using -delete in my rsync command) even though nothing was changed. Hmm... that's odd because nothing is being changed on the ipod itself, I just ran the rsync several times in a row, yet it still removes those folders.

keefaz

11-18-2008 10:41 AM

Did you try rsync option --modify-window ?

Quote:

Originally Posted by man rsync

Code:

--modify-window

              When comparing two timestamps, rsync treats  the  timestamps  as

              being  equal  if  they  differ by no more than the modify-window

              value.  This is normally 0 (for an exact  match),  but  you  may

              find it useful to set this to a larger value in some situations.

              In particular, when transferring to or from an  MS  Windows  FAT

              filesystem  (which represents times with a 2-second resolution),

              --modify-window=1 is useful (allowing times to differ by up to 1

              second).

alkos333

11-18-2008 06:06 PM

I tried setting --modify-window=2 and that still didn't help. It's just two of the same folders that keep getting deleted.

These are the ones:

Code:

me@tpt60:~/media/music$ tree V.I.C./

V.I.C./

`-- Get Silly

    |-- 01. V.I.C - Get Silly.mp3

    `-- cover.jpg



1 directory, 2 files

me@tpt60:~/media/music$ tree T.I.

T.I.

|-- King

|  |-- 03. T.I. - What You Know.mp3

|  `-- cover.jpg

|-- Live Your Life

|  |-- 01. T.I. - Live Your Life (ft. Rihanna).mp3

|  `-- cover.jpg

`-- Whatever You Like

    |-- 01. T.I. - Whatever You Like.mp3

    `-- cover.jpg



3 directories, 6 files

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