Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:05:03 +0200 From: Alson van der Meulen <alson+ml@alm.flutnet.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: usb stick problem Message-ID: <20071014180503.GA3065@waalsdorp.nl> In-Reply-To: <20071014064844.GA1067@faust.net> References: <20071014064844.GA1067@faust.net>
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* Zoran Kolic <zkolic@sbb.co.yu> [2007-10-14 08:48]: > I encountered something minor to usual problems, > people have on this list, but it makes me nervous. > I bought brand new usb flash stick and used it to > solve the issue on handheld. After putting files > on it, I have them in format 8.3. The option to > mount -t was msdosfs. It should bring me long file > names, but it does not. Mu stupid question would > be: did I chose wrong file system? Or is this usb > drive preformatted in something strange like fat16? This sounds like the documented behavior if the drive was empty or had no long filenames when you mounted it. From mount_msdosfs(8): "If neither -s nor -l are given, mount_msdosfs searches the root directory of the file system 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." -o longnames should do the trick. Alson
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