[TriLUG] ext3 to vfat copy issue...

[William Sutton]

VFAT (last I checked), indeed Windows/DOS in general, doesn't care about 
or maintain case sensitivity in file names, so cp with or without 
permissions isn't going to help.  Can you export your ext3 as a Samba 
share?

-- 
William Sutton


On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, dsandif wrote:

> I am having issues with copying files from a linux ext3 format to a vfat 
> or fat32 external hard drive.The original files to be copied are in up 
> case, ie, R3456, Panama, GUTAMALA. But when I copy  the files to the 
> external vfat\fat32 drive, the file names get changed to lower case 
> every time so I end up with r3456, panama, Guatemala. I have certain 
> scripts and programs that depend upon the case sensitivity of these 
> files and won't work if they are adjusted like this. The intent was to 
> be able to use the external to view and access files on both linux and 
> windows OS. The command I give to copy is as follows:
> 
> /bin/cp -R source(in this case GUTAMALA) /mnt/flash
> 
> 
> Thxs.
> 
> D-
> 
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