Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 22:00:22 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org> To: stile@imsa.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: msdos & vfat Message-ID: <14015.45782.567419.250802@zuhause.zuhause.mn.org> In-Reply-To: <199902071959.NAA19608@afri.edu.> References: <199902071959.NAA19608@afri.edu.>
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stile@imsa.edu writes:
> In linux I can mount my fat partitions with long filename support.
> Using a mount type of vfat. Is there anything similar in FreeBSD?
> Mounting with 8.3 characters via msdos is not really a nice option.
You don't indicate which release of FreeBSD you're running, but if
it's a recent enough version, it has long filename support. Check
with "man mount_msdos". One thing you might want to do is mount the
partition with the -l option, as the MSDOS filesystem will default to
short filenames unless there's a long filename in the root directory.
>From the mount_msdos man page:
-l Force listing and generation of Win'95 long filenames and sepa-
rate creation/modification/access dates.
If neither -s nor -l are given, mount_msdos searches the root di-
rectory of the filesystem to be mounted for any existing Win'95
long filenames. If no such entries are found, but short DOS
filenames are found, -s is the default. Otherwise -l is assumed.
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