long file names

Janina Sajka janina at afb.net
Wed Jun 12 17:29:40 EDT 2002


Also no problems here either mounting VFAT under Linux 2.4.18.

Actually, the below error message sounds like a Win message.
There are ways to break long filename support in Windows, because
Windows long filenames are still really only a hack against the
old DOS 8.3 convention.

On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Steve Holmes wrote:

> Really?  I have 2.4.18 and auto mount two windows fat32 file systems
> (vfat) and I haven't noticed anything particularly funny with them.
> 
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 11:32:13AM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote:
> > Raul,
> > 
> > 	What kernel are you running? I'm just asking because the fat/vfat
> > modules are broken under 2.4.18.
> > 
> > Explorer has caused a general protection fault in module kernel32.dll. I'm sick of Winblows!
> > On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Tyler Spivey wrote:
> > 
> > > try mounting it with -t vfat.
> > > i haven't tried, and hope i never will try to mount a widnows partition.
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