Re: long filenames in M$Dos partition
On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 1998 at 01:24:33AM +0000, shaul@rakefet.va.debian.org wrote:
> > > Can anybody of you please explain to me (hopeless newbie) why
> > > when I can't see long filenames on mounted msdos partition? This
> > > causes me some pain in the neck as I can't freely manipulate files
> > > between linux and dos...
> >
> > Since linux assumes that an MSDOS file system is to be operatable even when it
> > does not mounted by Linux, it doesn't want to intefer with MSDOS file system
> > too much. There for, when mounting an MSDOS file system, Linux stickes with
> > the MSDOS rules.
> > But, being aware to the limitations of an MSDOS file system, I believe that
> > Linux tries to make long names short in a consistent and unique way.
> > Perhaps the easiest way when dealing with files that lives both on an MSDOS
> > file system and on "linux" file system is to determine thier names in the 8.3
> > format from the beginning.
>
> Huh? The vfat file system does long filenames on Windows partitions
> just fine! You seem to be using an invalid domain name again btw.
Yes, you can have long file names on a vfat filesystem. But you can't have
long filenames on an msdos filesystem. Scandisk from MS-DOS 6.x (and
probably other programs, too) generates a whole lot of errors if you use
it on a vfat partition, so you shouldn't use long filenames on a partition
that you also use with MS-DOS 6.x (or earlier versions).
You can add long filenames to an msdos filesystem at any time. Just
unmount it and re-mount it as vfat.
Remco
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