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Tue Jun 4 12:17:20 MDT 2013


       case=lower / case=asis
              Convert  all  files  names  to lower case, or leave
              them.  (Default: case=lower.)



You probably also want to change the trailing 1 1 on your vfat
filesystem to be 1 2.  Otherwise the windows partition is thought of as
a root filesystem.

Hugh

On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 11:39, Michael Deck wrote:
> I'm having a problem with case-sensitive file/directory names on RH7.2. I 
> have a volume that I mount as vfat because it is shared by the other OS 
> co-habitating on this machine. My /etc/fstab is
> 
>    LABEL=/                 /                       ext2    defaults        1 1
>    LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext2    defaults        1 2
>    /dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner    0 0
>    none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
>    none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
>    /dev/hda6               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
>    /dev/hda5               /opt                    vfat 
> noauto,owner,uid=500,gid=100,posix,nonumtail    1 1
>    /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 
> noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> 
> Now, if I mount this volume
> 
>    mount /opt
> 
> and then try to create a directory
> 
>    mkdir /opt/ABC
> 
> what I get from ls is
> 
>    /opt/abc
> 
> But if I
> 
>    mkdir /opt/ABCd
> 
> then I get
> 
>    /opt/ABCd
> 
> as expected. I don't already have an ABC or abc directory in /opt.
> 
> Is there another mount option or something I can do to force RH to preserve 
> case even when the directory name is all upper case?
> 
> -Mike





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