Re: Mounting a FAT32 partition

["Vikas Pandit" <vikaspandit@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

msdos only allowed 8.3 file format. Use vfat instead to get LFN.

Regards,
Vikas.

> From: Gaddam Srikrishan <srikrishan@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: linux-delhi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: "linux-delhi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <linux-delhi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [linux-delhi] Mounting a FAT32 partition
> Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 09:10:21 +0530
>
> Hi,
>
> My name is Srikrishan and I am quite new to Linux, working on it for
> last 3 months.
>
> I 've a small query that goes like this.
>
> I've installed RH6.2 on a machine that also has Windows 95 installed in
> their
> respective partitions. Windows partition is in FAT32.
> To access that partition I mount that partition under Linux. Although I
> am able to
> see all my files, only that I don't see them in Long File Name Format
> (LFN).
>
> I am mounting the partition with the following command:
>
> mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt/mypartition
>
> I'll be grateful to LI-Delhi if somebody can help me out to see my files
> in LFN.
>
> Thanks
> Srikrishan

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