Re: [HOW] Changing FC3 file system to accept longer file names?

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• From: Gilboa Davara <gilboada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:14:37 +0300
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Who long are the file names?
To what FS are you trying to move the files to? ext3? fat/fat32?
As far as I remember, ext3 filenames are limited to 255 characters.

Gilboa

On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 09:12 -0500, Jay Paulson wrote:
> I was wondering how do I get the FC3 file system to accept longer file 
> names?  I have a few files that are X characters long on my Mac OSX 
> machine and when I move the files over to my FC3 system I get the error 
> of the file being too many characters and to rename it.  The problem is 
> I can't rename these files for whatever reason.  Help!
> 
> Thanks,
> jay

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