Moving from the old machine on the removable drive and from
the latter to the newer machine changed the case of the VAR
and WIND file inside the location dirs. What sounds very
strange to me is why only those two files plus a MYNAME
one...
Moritz:
Did you have other upper-case names which remained upper-case ?
Maybe an issue with a fat filesystem on the removable drive ?
Cassiel:
Yes, DEFAULT_WIND, PROJ_INFO, PROJ_UNITS remained upper
case while (I checked the rest of locations) all wind and
var files were converted to lower case.
The removable drive is fat32 and file permissions are all
755 on the older linux box...
the above 3 don't fit into DOS's 8.3 filename restriction, so
all get stored as PROJ_I~1 etc. with the real name stored
elsewhere. VAR and WIND are less then 8 letters so just get
stored as normal DOS names, which are case insensitive. If you
look in the man page for 'mount' I think you will find a few
options (-o ...) for choosing how to deal with uppercase letters
while visiting fat-land.
Moving from the old machine on the removable drive and from
the latter to the newer machine changed the case of the VAR
and WIND file inside the location dirs. What sounds very
strange to me is why only those two files plus a MYNAME
one…
Moritz:
Did you have other upper-case names which remained upper-case ?
Maybe an issue with a fat filesystem on the removable drive ?
Cassiel:
Yes, DEFAULT_WIND, PROJ_INFO, PROJ_UNITS remained upper
case while (I checked the rest of locations) all wind and
var files were converted to lower case.
The removable drive is fat32 and file permissions are all
755 on the older linux box…
the above 3 don’t fit into DOS’s 8.3 filename restriction, so
all get stored as PROJ_I~1 etc. with the real name stored
elsewhere. VAR and WIND are less then 8 letters so just get
stored as normal DOS names, which are case insensitive. If you
look in the man page for ‘mount’ I think you will find a few
options (-o …) for choosing how to deal with uppercase letters
while visiting fat-land.
Hamish
Ok, I would have never guess that, as you can see there are no names containing ~ char looking the output below.
I wonder if some mkfs.vfat option can override this behaviour, clearly I remember that during the last year I did backup regularly from work to home without having troubles.