From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 27 21:04:14 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 7C80A16A41F for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:04:14 +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 012A043D48 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:04:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EKMaR-0005iv-Eh for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 23:02:03 +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 23:02:03 +0200 Received: from martinkov by r5k115.chello.upc.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 23:02:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: martinko Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 23:01:41 +0200 Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4339B335.4080408@pobox.sk> References: <433852A8.10900@gish.demon.nl> <43393B24.30506@dial.pipex.com> <43394783.3020608@pobox.sk> <200509271521.41498.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.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 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: <200509271521.41498.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.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 21:04:14 -0000 RW wrote: > On Tuesday 27 September 2005 14:22, martinko wrote: > > >>ok. unfortunately i forgot most of my knowledge from the old days of >>ms-dos but what i can say even without it is this -- it's not about >>windows explorer only. i can see the correct file names in all >>applications (under windows of course), i believe. and if windows knows >>whether there should be an "A" or "a" then why freebsd cannot? >> > > > > Your use of the word "correct" is odd. FreeBSD uses the filename stored on the > disk - the one put there when the file was created. The display of filename > case and the case sensitivity of the filesystem are two different issues. The > real question is why Windows needlessly overides the choices of it's users. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > excuse my english :) also i tried to make clear i wasn't talking about fs case sensitivity but only about the display of filename case. and my question is simple -- if windows can remember somehow the filename case on fat32, why can't freebsd?