Hi, I figured it out. The portable disk is indeed a vfat. Here's what mount has to say about it: /dev/sdb1 on /media/LaCie type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,uid=500) This setting was converting some file names to lower case. I looked at my FC6 laptop and there's one more crucial option, shortname=winnt. Adding that to my configuration via config-editor solved the problem. Thanks for your time, Peter On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 19:44 -0700, Peter Langfelder wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I just installed F9 on my desktop machine and am running into a >> problem when trying to transfer files from a windows system. Here's a >> bit of background: I used to switch back and forth between a linux >> (FC6) laptop and a windows desktop, transferring my work files back >> and forth using a USB stick and rsync. All capital letters are >> properly recognized in F6, so when I create a file Temp.R on Windows, >> it shows as Temp.R on my FC6 laptop. In F9, however, some filenames >> are being converted to lowercase (I suspect those that were created on >> Windows..); for example, the file may show up as temp.r. The converted >> file names are being displayed both in >> File Browser windows as well as in terminal (such as seen by ls or rsync). >> >> Is there any way to make the system recognize the case the way FC6 >> did? Is this some setting in the automatic recognition and mounting of >> file systems? A proper file name recognition from Windows is very >> important... I'd hate to have to downgrade the system so I get this >> functionality back. > ---- > vfat file system? what mount options are in place? > > probably if you show us output of 'mount' command, that may be useful > > It would make sense that you test things so you don't have to guess > where/when things break down. > > make 2 new folders - say files-from-home and files-from-work > > and put a couple of files from your home system into the files-from-home > folder and see how they're named when you get to work and reverse the > process. > > for S&G's, I plugged in my external USB drive that is formatted vfat... > /dev/sdb1 on /media/120G-HD type vfat > (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,uid=500) > > and the file names seemed to be proper/case mixed as expected. > > Craig > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
