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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