Re: formatting ext3 vs fat32 while copying files
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 16:11:21 +0000, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
> Greets.
>
> I recently copied a bunch of files from a fat32 flash to my ext3
> (~/Desktop). Some of them are cyrilics and became ????????.mp3 or
> similar. I can copy then within the ext3 but if i try to copy them to
> another fat32 i get a bunch of errors, mostly "invalid parameters".
> Also when trying to chmod the whole thing from root to the regular
> user i get Operation not permited...
> So i have a bunch of files i can't copy to other filesystems.
>
> I get this regardless of the filemanager i use - the default is thunar
> (i think...could be gnome's), but i prefer rox-filer.
>
> Is there some sort of abstraction layer, or filter or whatever that
> will convert everything to Unicode? At least rox-filer will mark badly
> (unicode)named files in red, but it would be great it that was
> transparent even when mv/cp flies. I.e. to have a default unicode
> system. Xmms will sometimes show ID3 tags garbled for instance.
The "convmv" package might be helpful to convert the names of the ???
files to the proper encoding.
For transferring additional files from the flash drive to the hard disk,
maybe playing with mount options "iocharset" and "codepage" can ensure
proper filename encoding conversion during copying.
As far as the ID3 tags are concerned, I suspect that programs like Kid3
or EasyTAG can batch-convert the encoding of the content of the tags,
but I never tried something like that myself.
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