on Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 08:09:49PM -0500, Stephen Gran (gashuffer09@home.com) wrote:
> Thus spake dman:
> > On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 02:56:04AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote:
> > | Eric Smith wrote:
> > | > How do I get unabridged filenames viz project_one.doc insead of
> > | > projec~1.doc on floppies where files have been saved in windows.
> > |
> > | mount it as vfat (mount -t vfat)?
> > The easiest way is to edit /etc/filesystems and list vfat above msdos.
> > When you specify a type of "auto", mount must try things (in some
> > order) to find one that works. For some reason it defaults to trying
> > msdos before vfat, it works, and you only get 8.3 characters.
The default order comes from /proc/filesystems. There, msdos precedes
msdos.
> > You can specify a preferred order in /etc/filesystems and have it
> > try vfat first.
> >
> I'm sorry to ask, but what package is that from? It's not on my box
$ cat /proc/filesystems > /etc/filesystems
$ vi /etc/filesystems
Peace.
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