Linked by Christian Paratschek on Thu 10th Feb 2005 20:14 UTC
Recently I stumbled across a very nice article, written by Torsten Scheck, published on pro-linux.de, a German Linux site. This article proved to be so helpful to me that I decided it would be worthwhile to translate it into English and republish it. Comments of the translator will be added in italics. I hope a lot of people will find this little gem as useful as I did...
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I saw no mention of my pet gripe with working with vfat from Linux:
touch testfile.txt
mv testfile.txt TESTFILE.TXT
mv: `testfile.txt' and `TESTFILE.TXT' are the same file
It may sound stupid but I find it significant in some circumstances. It may seem shortname=mixed may solve some of my problems but the above error is still happening. Unless anyone can suggest a way around this I will accept it as a vfat limitation.
As an earlier poster has mentioned, vfat is not case sensitive. I haven't tried this, but there's a vfat mount option called posix, which the man page describes as "Allow two files with names that only differ in case."
On a slightly different note, does anybody know how to defrag a vfat partition from within GNU/Linux? The only decent solution I have found so far is to move all the files off the filesystem (thereby leaving it blank) and then move them back. This forces them to be rewritten so that they are less fragmented.