Upper case and lower case, NTFS and FAT32

[fergus]

On my NTFS filesystem I have a directory called Windows, not WINDOWS. If I
mount -t ntfs -o rw /dev/hda1 /c
then
ls /c/Windows
lists files as required and
ls /c/WINDOWS
returns an error message, no such directory.

But: on my FAT32 filesystem I have a directory called WINDOWS, not Windows. If I
mount -t vfat -o posix,shortname=winnt /dev/hda1 /c
then
ls /c/Windows
lists all the files under /c/WINDOWS, as does
ls /c/WINDOWS

This is very annoying. I have played with every possible variation on options to -t vfat including shortname=mixed, etc. Can anybody tell me what options to -t vfat provide a foolproof distinction between lower case and upper case? (ie. will return an error message when any attempt is made to address a directory or file with casename errors)?

Thank you

[Jorpho]

I suspect that since "Windows" is less than eight characters, there is no long file name associated with it on the FAT32 drive and therefore no case information associated with it.

[hal8000]

The first thing to note is that your mount point is /c

mount -t ntfs -o rw /dev/hda1 /c


You should therefore just list /c
i.e.

ls /c

this will give you all drive contents then you can do
cd /c/Windows

However why not open your home folder and in the location bar type /c this why you
have a graphical why to manipulate your files without having to type upper or lower
case names.

For permanent mounting create an entry in /etc/fstab
Example

/dev/hda1 ntfs-3g /mnt/winxp defaults,noauto,users 0 0

uses the ntfs-3g library with write capability to mount your windows NTFS partition.
It is not mounted at boot (noauto) but can be mounted simply by using kwikdisk
(if you use KDE)
HTH