[plug] Kernel-2.2.13 and LS120 and ...

Kenworthy Family billk at opera.iinet.net.au
Thu Oct 28 14:31:04 WST 1999


fstab it is, thanks Matt - should have twigged to that earlier and might have saved
myself some grief ...

BillK


Matt Kemner wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Kenworthy Family wrote:
>
> > Mounting the disk seems to allow only 8.3 dos filenames and I have
> > not yet come across a way around it.  It would certainly give more confidence
> > in what's happening if disk mounting and long filenames could be sorted.
>
> Mount it as a vfat filesystem, not an msdos filesystem
>
> ie mount -t vfat /dev/hdX /mnt
>
> or create an entry in /etc/fstab for the drive with "vfat" as the type.
>
>  - Matt




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