[olug] rsync converts UPPER to lower case?

Jonathan Warren thechunk at cox.net
Tue Oct 8 20:47:50 UTC 2002


opps UMSDOS  here is howto.  Still haven't read it so your own your own.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/UMSDOS-HOWTO.html

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 03:44:09PM -0500, Jonathan Warren wrote:
> 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?)
> > 
> > 
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