file name case issue on fat32 (Was: Re: Sharing data files on
a dual-boot machine ...)
martinko
martinkov at pobox.sk
Tue Sep 27 13:59:09 PDT 2005
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
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