I discovered that while a MSDOS/FAt32 filesystem can be mounted and accessed as nature intended, the file names are modified. This does not create a problem (they are correct when accessed from Windoze) unless the files are restored from a backup created under FC. Does anyone know of a workaround for this problem?
On 4/30/06, Geoffrey Leach geoff@hughes.net wrote:
I discovered that while a MSDOS/FAt32 filesystem can be mounted and accessed as nature intended, the file names are modified. This does not create a problem (they are correct when accessed from Windoze) unless the files are restored from a backup created under FC. Does anyone know of a workaround for this problem?
what do you mean the file names are modified? -- As a boy I jumped through Windows, as a man I play with Penguins.
On 4/30/06, Geoffrey Leach geoff@hughes.net wrote:
I discovered that while a MSDOS/FAt32 filesystem can be mounted and accessed as nature intended, the file names are modified. This does not create a problem (they are correct when accessed from Windoze) unless the files are restored from a backup created under FC. Does anyone know of a workaround for this problem?
Are you referrng to file names which exceed the 8.3 DOS format being changed?
On 04.30 18:30, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
On 4/30/06, Geoffrey Leach geoff@hughes.net wrote:
I discovered that while a MSDOS/FAt32 filesystem can be mounted and accessed as nature intended, the file names are modified. This does not create a problem (they are correct when accessed from Windoze) unless the files are restored from a backup created under FC. Does anyone know of a workaround for this problem?
what do you mean the file names are modified?
For example, "MyDocuments" shows up as mydocu~1
On 04.30 18:32, Kam Leo wrote:
On 4/30/06, Geoffrey Leach geoff@hughes.net wrote:
I discovered that while a MSDOS/FAt32 filesystem can be mounted and accessed as nature intended, the file names are modified. This does not create a problem (they are correct when accessed from Windoze) unless the files are restored from a backup created under FC. Does anyone know of a workaround for this problem?
Are you referrng to file names which exceed the 8.3 DOS format being changed?
Hmmm ... quite possibly. MyDocuments shows up as mydocu~1
On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 18:54 -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
On 04.30 18:30, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
On 4/30/06, Geoffrey Leach geoff@hughes.net wrote:
I discovered that while a MSDOS/FAt32 filesystem can be mounted and accessed as nature intended, the file names are modified. This does not create a problem (they are correct when accessed from Windoze) unless the files are restored from a backup created under FC. Does anyone know of a workaround for this problem?
what do you mean the file names are modified?
For example, "MyDocuments" shows up as mydocu~1
Mount the file system as vfat and NOT msdos! You're mounting it as the wrong FS type. Vfat supports the MS hack for long file systems that does not exist in the msdos file system. They're the same basic file system at heart but, if you mount it as msdos, you will only see the raw 8.3 msdos file names and not the extended vfat filenames.
Mike
Geoffrey Leach wrote:
On 04.30 18:30, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
On 4/30/06, Geoffrey Leach geoff@hughes.net wrote:
I discovered that while a MSDOS/FAt32 filesystem can be mounted and accessed as nature intended, the file names are modified. This does not create a problem (they are correct when accessed from Windoze) unless the files are restored from a backup created under FC. Does anyone know of a workaround for this problem?
what do you mean the file names are modified?
For example, "MyDocuments" shows up as mydocu~1
What did you use to back things up? It sounds like it you only backed up the 8.3 names, and not the long file names. (Or you mounted the partition as fat instead of vfat for ether the backup or the restore...)
Mikkel
On 4/30/06, Geoffrey Leach geoff@hughes.net wrote:
On 04.30 18:30, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
On 4/30/06, Geoffrey Leach geoff@hughes.net wrote:
I discovered that while a MSDOS/FAt32 filesystem can be mounted and accessed as nature intended, the file names are modified. This does not create a problem (they are correct when accessed from Windoze) unless the files are restored from a backup created under FC. Does anyone know of a workaround for this problem?
what do you mean the file names are modified?
For example, "MyDocuments" shows up as mydocu~1
Nope, something else is as fault. /mnt/storage is my fat32 partion and...
[pembo13@Watson tmp]$ cd /mnt/storage/System\ Volume\ Information/ [pembo13@Watson System Volume Information]$ pwd /mnt/storage/System Volume Information
-- As a boy I jumped through Windows, as a man I play with Penguins.
On 04.30 19:02, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 18:54 -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
On 04.30 18:30, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
On 4/30/06, Geoffrey Leach geoff@hughes.net wrote:
I discovered that while a MSDOS/FAt32 filesystem can be mounted
and
accessed as nature intended, the file names are modified. This
does
not create a problem (they are correct when accessed from
Windoze)
unless the files are restored from a backup created under FC.
Does
anyone know of a workaround for this problem?
what do you mean the file names are modified?
For example, "MyDocuments" shows up as mydocu~1
Mount the file system as vfat and NOT msdos! You're mounting it as the wrong FS type. Vfat supports the MS hack for long file systems that does not exist in the msdos file system. They're the same basic file system at heart but, if you mount it as msdos, you will only see the raw 8.3 msdos file names and not the extended vfat filenames.
Ah Hah! Learn something new every day. Thanks, Mike.
On 04.30 19:06, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Geoffrey Leach wrote:
On 04.30 18:30, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
On 4/30/06, Geoffrey Leach geoff@hughes.net wrote:
I discovered that while a MSDOS/FAt32 filesystem can be mounted
and
accessed as nature intended, the file names are modified. This
does
not create a problem (they are correct when accessed from Windoze) unless the files are restored from a backup created under FC.
Does
anyone know of a workaround for this problem?
what do you mean the file names are modified?
For example, "MyDocuments" shows up as mydocu~1
What did you use to back things up? It sounds like it you only backed up the 8.3 names, and not the long file names. (Or you mounted the partition as fat instead of vfat for ether the backup or the restore...)
FStype msdos, not vfat as it should have been. Thanks.
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