[HOW] Changing FC3 file system to accept longer file names?

[Bob Chiodini]

On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 09:29 -0500, Jay Paulson wrote:
> The one that is giving me problems is 32 characters long.  I'm moving 
> it from my Mac OSX machine to the FC3 machine.  I have no idea if the 
> file system is fat/fat32/ext3 etc.  How do I find this out so I can let 
> you know?
> 
> thanks,
> jay
> 
> > Who long are the file names?
> > To what FS are you trying to move the files to? ext3? fat/fat32?
> > As far as I remember, ext3 filenames are limited to 255 characters.
> >
> > Gilboa
> >
> > On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 09:12 -0500, Jay Paulson wrote:
> >> I was wondering how do I get the FC3 file system to accept longer file
> >> names?  I have a few files that are X characters long on my Mac OSX
> >> machine and when I move the files over to my FC3 system I get the 
> >> error
> >> of the file being too many characters and to rename it.  The problem 
> >> is
> >> I can't rename these files for whatever reason.  Help!
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> jay
> 
Jay,

The mount command should list the file system types.

Bob...