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  • From: "Greg Mayman" <gmone AT tpg.com.au>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] long filenames
  • Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:08:44 +1030

On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:05:57 +1300, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> You are very welcome to use a partial mounting command
> (I use "mount /fd" myself), but when you do that you
> need to realize that Linux will go to /etc/fstab to
> get the instructions for that mount. At the moment
> /etc/fstab tells Linux to mount /fd with type msdos
> (i.e. no long filenames). If you edit /etc/fstab and
> change msdos to vfat, then your partial /fd mount will
> do long filenames.

I'm starting to learn things that mere familiarity with CLI commands
could never teach me.



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. / \ from Greg Mayman, in Adelaide, South Australia
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  • Re: [BL] long filenames, 3aoo-cvfd, 02/01/2007
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    • Re: [BL] long filenames, Greg Mayman, 02/01/2007

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