[olug] rsync converts UPPER to lower case?

Jonathan Warren thechunk at cox.net
Tue Oct 8 20:44:09 UTC 2002


Yes UMDOS format it.  I have never used UMDOS though so don't ask me.  I think it might require a reformat as well.

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 03:30:13PM -0500, Brian Wiese wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 08:41:44 -0500
> Jonathan Warren <thechunk at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> |Was FAT32 involved anywhere?
> |
> |On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:33:45AM -0500, Brian Wiese wrote:
> |> Ok..
> |> 
> |> I just started using "rsync" today to backup files locally. nice. =)
> but I
> |> have some directories with names in ALL CAPS, and when rsync copied
> them
> |> over to my new directory... they were all lowercase ... folders, files
> and
> |> extensions.
> |> 
> |> ??? Why ???  please help!
> 
> 
> actually... going back and looking, I am rsyncing between my / partition
> (ext3) to my backup drive /100gb1 which is (vfat)....
> 
> so this makes a difference eh?
> 
> can I make it keep the filenames exactly? 
> (i.e. slap vfat around a few times into submission?)
> 
> 
>   Brian Wiese | bwiese at cotse.com | aim: unolinuxguru
> ------------------------------------------------------
>   GnuPG/PGP key 0x1E820A73 | "FREEDOM!" - Braveheart 
>   
> This is not about Napster or DVDs. It's about your Freedom.
>   I'll see your DMCA and raise you a First Amendment.
>               http://www.anti-dmca.org
> _______________________________________________
> OLUG mailing list
> OLUG at olug.org
> http://lists.olug.org/mailman/listinfo/olug



More information about the OLUG mailing list