[lug] Capitalization of mounted drives?

[Lee Woodworth]

Elyse M. Grasso wrote:
> I have a java directory tree containing about 10,000 files on a USB thumb 
> drive. 
What type file system does the thumb drive have? IIRC, mount -t msdos/fat
mucks with file name case, mount -t vfat doesn't.
> 
> When I mount the drive on Linux, many, but not all, of the directories and 
> files lose their capitalization. On windows they are fine. Is there an 
> incantation I can use in /etc/fstab that will keep this from happening?
> 
> It looks like names that are all caps get lowercased, and names that have a 
> completely capitalized section get lowercased (FTP.jar goes to ftp.jar, which 
> makes things that depend on it really unhappy) but names with a mix of cases 
> before the dot seem to stay unchanged.