Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 11:32:05 +0200 From: Kyrre Nygard <kyrreny@broadpark.no> To: Lorin Lund <wbs@infowest.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shell script cannot run on FAT32 partition Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20060520113009.0221d7a8@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <446CC6CA.7020001@infowest.com> References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060518123424.02289418@broadpark.no> <446CC6CA.7020001@infowest.com>
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At 21:11 18.05.2006, Lorin Lund wrote: >Kyrre Nygard wrote: > >> >>Hello! >> >>I have this nice renaming script here. >>It sanitizes badly named parts of files and folders. >> >>But when I run it on my FAT32, dual boot transition partition >>(hehe), it causes >>my computer (Pentium 4, 3,2 GHz) to freeze. I vaguely remember seeing some >>message before it freezes saying "Locking from myself" or something >>like that, >>this is not recorded into /var/log/messages. >> >>It is very annoying actually because to rename a bunch of files I >>first have to >>copy them to my UFS2 partition, run the script, and then copy them >>back to the >>FAT32 partition. >> >>Does this problem sound familiar to anyone? >> >>Thanks! >> >>Anyway here is the script. > >FAT32 seems to have some limitations on moving and renaming files. > >Several years ago I had wrote a program (which ran under Win98) which received >files by UDP in pieces. Once fully assembled it would "MOVE" the >files to another director. > >That process would bog down. When I tried the same application >under WinNT on an NTFS >drive it worked OK. I don't know if the problem was in Win 98 or if >it is a weakness of the FAT32 >design. If the problem is in the FAT32 design there could be >problems that even show up under >FreeBSD. > >That's my $0.02 To a man of my poverty, $0.02 is a lot more than what it seems :) I guess there' s no way around it. I notice when I copy files, manually one by one, to or from FAT32, the files end up in uppercase. This is also very annoying, but something I guess I have to live with. Take care, Kyrre
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