<br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/9 Hamish <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hamish_b@yahoo.com">hamish_b@yahoo.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><br>
Hamish wrote:<br>
> If you look in the man page for 'mount' I think you will<br>
> find a few options (-o ...) for choosing how to deal with<br>
> uppercase letters while visiting fat-land.<br>
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</div>specifically search for "shortname="<br>
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Raffaele:<br>
<div class="im">> Ok, I would have never guess that, as you can see there are<br>
> no names containing ~ char looking the output below.<br>
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</div>it's internal these days, unless you're unlucky to still work<br>
in DOS.</blockquote><div><br>I am lucky, debian lenny is my special friend. <br><br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im"><br>
> I wonder if some mkfs.vfat option can override this<br>
> behaviour, clearly I remember that during the last year I<br>
> did backup regularly from work to home without having<br>
> troubles.<br>
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</div>yes, as above, see the man page for mount.<br>
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put the options in your /etc/fstab file to make it automatic.<br>
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Hamish<br>
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</font></blockquote><div><br>Thanks for helping.<br><br>regards<br>r<br></div></div>