From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 27 12:29:27 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 B422316A41F for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:29:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AE6643D53 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:29:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [82.41.253.249] ([82.41.253.249]) by smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Tue, 27 Sep 2005 13:30:14 +0100 Message-ID: <43393B24.30506@dial.pipex.com> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 13:29:24 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050917 X-Accept-Language: en-us, pl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: martinko References: <433852A8.10900@gish.demon.nl> <20050926225220.33c51d39@localhost> <43392786.8060102@pobox.sk> <43393578.7080109@pobox.sk> In-Reply-To: <43393578.7080109@pobox.sk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Sep 2005 12:30:14.0668 (UTC) FILETIME=[36167CC0:01C5C35F] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 12:29:27 -0000 martinko wrote: > Dmitry Mityugov wrote: > >> On 9/27/05, martinko wrote: >> ... >> >>> 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. >> > > sorry if i didn't make myself clear. -- ALL the file names above > should have their first letter, and only the first letter, in upper > case. that's how they were named in windows. but as you can see above, > freebsd does not show them properly as some of them are shown in > lowercase (e.g. "a.txt" instead of "A.txt"). > > why?? Because FAT32 is a case-insensitive file system. Don't confuse how Windows explorer shows you the file name with how the file name is actually stored on the file system. --Alex