[olug] Filesystem Question?

Robert A. Jacobs r.a.jacobs at cox.net
Tue May 27 06:44:07 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 01:06, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> Robert A. Jacobs wrote:
>  > Olug,
>  >
>  > Okay, I've got an annoying problem that I am finally getting around
>  > to addressing:  whenever I copy files to or from a 3 1/2" or Zip
>  > disk, the filenames are truncated as if I was working with an old DOS
>  >  system i.e. I get an 8.3 name.
> 
> When you mount the file system mount it as VFAT (ie mount -t vfat
> /dev/fd0 <mount point>) instead of as MSDOS (ie mount -t msdos ...).
> 

Thanks Phil.  That was, indeed, the problem.  Had my fstab entry set to
"auto" instead of "vfat".  

Rob



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