case sensitive in mounted USB disk

Yuandan Zhang yzhang4 at turing.une.edu.au
Tue May 31 23:12:28 UTC 2005


Rick Stevens wrote:

>
>>>
>> It is FAT32, here is output from fdisk -l
>>
>>
>> Disk /dev/sda: 1463 MB, 1463648256 bytes
>> 64 heads, 63 sectors/track, 709 cylinders
>> Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 = 2064384 bytes
>>
>>   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
>> /dev/sda1             1       709   1429312+   b  Win95 FAT32
>
>
> Any FAT or NTFS (in fact, all DOS filesystems) are case insensitive.
> Not a bug, that's the definition of the filesystems.

Yes, I understand Fat is case insensitive. As Matthew suggested, I want 
the upper case file names showing in uppper case.




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