Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 11:58:40 -0500 (EST) From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using msdos floppy on FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0211061156470.28913-100000@onyx> In-Reply-To: <20021106033518.GC1208@dan.emsphone.com>
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You are right. The original short name files will be converted to capital letters. Thanks, -Zhihui On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Nov 05), Zhihui Zhang said: > > I have two FAT floppy that I used to transfer files between FreeBSD > > and Windows. One can show longer file names, the one cannot. What > > format command (on FreeBSD or Windows) does this trick (i.e. choose > > FAT32)? I want to reformat the floppy that does not show longer than > > eight names. Thanks. > > If a floppy has only short names, mount_msdos assumes it's a DOS floppy > and will not generate long names when you create files on it. You can > force it by mounting the floppy with the -l option, or you can put a > long filename on the floppy with a Windows machine, which should cause > BSD to use long filenames the next that floppy is mounted. You don't > need to reformat. > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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