From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 6 8:58:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C66B737B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 08:58:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EECB443E4A for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 08:58:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) Received: from onyx ([128.226.182.171]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gA6Gwer06786; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 11:58:40 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 11:58:40 -0500 (EST) From: Zhihui Zhang X-Sender: zzhang@onyx To: Dan Nelson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using msdos floppy on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20021106033518.GC1208@dan.emsphone.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You are right. The original short name files will be converted to capital letters. Thanks, -Zhihui On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Nov 05), Zhihui Zhang said: > > I have two FAT floppy that I used to transfer files between FreeBSD > > and Windows. One can show longer file names, the one cannot. What > > format command (on FreeBSD or Windows) does this trick (i.e. choose > > FAT32)? I want to reformat the floppy that does not show longer than > > eight names. Thanks. > > If a floppy has only short names, mount_msdos assumes it's a DOS floppy > and will not generate long names when you create files on it. You can > force it by mounting the floppy with the -l option, or you can put a > long filename on the floppy with a Windows machine, which should cause > BSD to use long filenames the next that floppy is mounted. You don't > need to reformat. > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message