Shell script cannot run on FAT32 partition

[Kyrre Nygard]

At 21:11 18.05.2006, Lorin Lund wrote:
>Kyrre Nygard wrote:
>
>>
>>Hello!
>>
>>I have this nice renaming script here.
>>It sanitizes badly named parts of files and folders.
>>
>>But when I run it on my FAT32, dual boot transition partition 
>>(hehe), it causes
>>my computer (Pentium 4, 3,2 GHz) to freeze. I vaguely remember seeing some
>>message before it freezes saying "Locking from myself" or something 
>>like that,
>>this is not recorded into /var/log/messages.
>>
>>It is very annoying actually because to rename a bunch of files I 
>>first have to
>>copy them to my UFS2 partition, run the script, and then copy them 
>>back to the
>>FAT32 partition.
>>
>>Does this problem sound familiar to anyone?
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>Anyway here is the script.
>
>FAT32 seems to have some limitations on moving and renaming files.
>
>Several years ago I had wrote a program (which ran under Win98) which received
>files by UDP in pieces.  Once fully assembled it would "MOVE"  the 
>files to another director.
>
>That process would bog down.  When I tried the same application 
>under WinNT on an NTFS
>drive it worked OK.  I don't know if the problem was in Win 98 or if 
>it is a weakness of the FAT32
>design.  If the problem is in the FAT32 design there could be 
>problems that even show up under
>FreeBSD.
>
>That's my $0.02

To a man of my poverty, $0.02 is a lot more than what it seems :)

I guess there' s no way around it.

I notice when I copy files, manually one by one, to or from FAT32,
the files end up in uppercase. This is also very annoying,
but something I guess I have to live with.

Take care,
Kyrre