Re: [9fans] FAT32 question

[Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>]

On Mar 27, 2013, at 5:24 AM, Comeau At9Fans <comeauat9fans@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm mounting a FAT32 flashdrive on a RPi.  However, it seems that some
> sort of legacy 8.3 filename situation is existing.  For instance, if I
> have a directory containing x.c and a23456789.c that the former is
> taken as X.C and the latter is taken as shown.  Therefore, to compile
> x.c is not possible.  So for instance, echo *.c produces a different
> result than echo *.C.  I tried mv'ing the problem files and then back
> but same results.
> 
> I do believe that historically there was some sort of interpretations
> such as this in the evolution from FAT to FAT32, but not sure it
> should be so in current version, or, at least, other operating systems
> don't take this interpretation.  Is there an option or something I'm
> missing?  How do I get to process x.c as x.c and not X.C.

mv failed to cure it of its uppercase probably because the X.C slot in the patent dir. was reused when you renamed it back. Copy everything to a brand new directory using lowercase names and see if that works. The broader lesson is to *not* use FAT fs with tools that expect case sensitive file systems.