From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 27 20:59:08 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 DB16A16A41F for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 20:59:08 +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 5B44343D49 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 20:59:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EKMUi-0003CB-4d for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 22:56:08 +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 22:56:08 +0200 Received: from martinkov by r5k115.chello.upc.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 22:56:08 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: martinko Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 22:55:40 +0200 Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4339B1CC.8030608@pobox.sk> References: <433852A8.10900@gish.demon.nl> <20050926225220.33c51d39@localhost> <43392786.8060102@pobox.sk> <43393578.7080109@pobox.sk> <43393B24.30506@dial.pipex.com> <43394783.3020608@pobox.sk> <43395410.3010606@ywave.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.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: <43395410.3010606@ywave.com> Sender: news 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 20:59:09 -0000 Micah wrote: > > The reason is as follows: a.txt is an 8.3 filename and is stored on > fat32 in the old dos format. a.txt~ is NOT an 8.3 filename and is > stored on fat32 in the extended long filename format. Case information > is not stored in 8.3's file names. They're always the same case, but I > can't remember now if they're stored as upper or lower case. Extended > long filenames do store case information, even though windows ignores > the case (as was pointed out earlier). FreeBSD is displaying 8.3 names > as lowercase probably to mimic the tendency of unix filenames to be > lowercase. Windows displays 8.3 names as upper case probably to mimic dos. > 8.3 filenames are stored in uppercase