From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 8 20:05:41 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA29036 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 20:05:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from abby.skypoint.net (abby.skypoint.net [199.86.32.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA29028 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 20:05:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bruce@zuhause.mn.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by abby.skypoint.net (8.8.7/jl 1.3) with UUCP id WAA18471; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 22:05:31 -0600 (CST) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by zuhause.mn.org (8.9.2/8.9.1) id WAA06713; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 22:00:23 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bruce) From: Bruce Albrecht MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14015.45782.567419.250802@zuhause.zuhause.mn.org> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 22:00:22 -0600 (CST) To: stile@imsa.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: msdos & vfat In-Reply-To: <199902071959.NAA19608@afri.edu.> References: <199902071959.NAA19608@afri.edu.> X-Mailer: VM 6.62 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message