In message <cs3ljn$poq$1@sea.gmane.org>, "Valeriy E. Ushakov" writes:
>Jean-Luc Wasmer <jl+netbsd@lists.wasmer.ca> wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to mount a FAT32 partition in such way that filenames are 
>> interpreted the same way as Windows?
>> 
>> Currently files that are all lower case letters show up with upper case 
>> letters (I guess that's how Windows write the entry in the directory).
>
>$ man mount_msdos
>
>     -s      Force behaviour to ignore and not generate Win'95 long filenames.
>
>     -l      Force listing and generation of Win'95 long filenames and sepa-
>             rate creation/modification/access dates.
>
>             If neither -s nor -l are given, mount_msdos searches the root di-
>             rectory of the filesystem to be mounted for any existing Win'95
>             long filenames.  If no such entries are found, -s is the default.
>             Otherwise -l is assumed.
>
>BUGS
>     The default handling for -s and -l will result in empty filesystems to be
>     populated with short filenames only. To generate long filenames on empty
>     DOS filesystems use -l.
>
>
>
>Though actually s/empty/without existing long filenames/.


Right.  I couldn't figure out how to make amd use -l, which is why I 
created that placeholder filename.

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