From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 27 11:07:55 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 2C6BA16A41F for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:07:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8139343D48 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:07:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EKDHl-0001yw-CO for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 13:06:09 +0200 Received: from r5k115.chello.upc.cz ([86.49.10.115]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 13:06:09 +0200 Received: from martinkov by r5k115.chello.upc.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 13:06:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: martinko Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 13:05:42 +0200 Lines: 56 Message-ID: <43392786.8060102@pobox.sk> References: <433852A8.10900@gish.demon.nl> <20050926225220.33c51d39@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: r5k115.chello.upc.cz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050925 X-Accept-Language: sk, cs, en-gb, en-us, en In-Reply-To: <20050926225220.33c51d39@localhost> Sender: news Subject: file name case issue on fat32 (Was: Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:07:55 -0000 jonas wrote: > On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 21:57:28 +0200 > Kiffin Gish wrote: > > >>I have a dual-boot laptop running on the one hand Windows XP (sorry) >>and on the other hand good old FreeBSD. >> >>My question: is it possible to exchange data files between both both >>operaing systems in an easy and efficient way? >> >>For example, saving all my MP3s on a separate data partition and >>playing the same music despite which operating system I am using? >> >>Thanks alot in advance. > > > hi! > > freebsd can mount ntfs read only and with limited writing support > (see 'man mount_ntfs' for details. (should be enough for playing mp3s). > you can create a fat32 partition which freebsd and windows can read and > write, or a ext2fs partition and get a ext2fs driver for windows. i'm > not totally sure, but think freebsd can write ext2fs. > > bye, > jonas hello, when i mount a fat32 partition some files have different case (see below) then in windows. how come ?? e.g.: $ ll -rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 734 Mar 1 2005 a.txt -rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 649 Mar 16 2003 A.txt~ -rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 1110 Mar 27 2003 b.txt -rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 2980 Jun 6 23:46 c.txt -rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 2475 Mar 1 2005 C.txt~ -rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 2563 Jun 10 12:49 d.txt -rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 2561 Jun 10 12:42 D.txt~ -rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 1015 Jun 7 00:25 e.txt -rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 681 Mar 16 2003 E.txt~ -rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 602 Mar 16 2003 f.txt -rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 421 Mar 16 2003 g.txt in windows all the files above have first letter in uppercase, that is "A.txt" for instance. is this a known issue (why??) or am i missing something or what? regards, martin