MSDOS/FAt32 filesystem

Geoffrey Leach geoff at hughes.net
Mon May 1 01:54:58 UTC 2006


On 04.30 18:32, Kam Leo wrote:
> On 4/30/06, Geoffrey Leach <geoff at 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




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