[olug] Filesystem Question?

[Phil Brutsche]

Robert A. Jacobs wrote:
 > Olug,
 >
 > Okay, I've got an annoying problem that I am finally getting around
 > to addressing:  whenever I copy files to or from a 3 1/2" or Zip
 > disk, the filenames are truncated as if I was working with an old DOS
 >  system i.e. I get an 8.3 name.

When you mount the file system mount it as VFAT (ie mount -t vfat
/dev/fd0 <mount point>) instead of as MSDOS (ie mount -t msdos ...).

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Phil Brutsche
phil at brutsche.us