Bug#492840: #492840

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Sat Aug 30 00:39:06 UTC 2008


clone 492840 -1
retitle -1 Please make shortname=mixed the default for vfat
reassign -1 gnome-mount
thanks

Le lundi 11 août 2008 à 22:33 -0700, Paula Keezer a écrit :
> The root cause of this problem is file system case sensitivity.   The latest 
> Debian kernel default option for vfat file system (file system on the ipod) 
> sets a parameter called "shortname" to lower  e.g.  shortname=lower.  This 
> forces all short names to be lower case.  Ipods have short file names for 
> the music directories and for the music files.  The ipod data base has the 
> correct case for these, as a result, when rhythmbox or your file system 
> manager, or amarok or any device reads from the ipod it gets lower case for 
> all short file names, while the database that rhymbox created for your ipod 
> has the file name in upper case.
> 
> The solution is to override the default 'shortname=lower' to 
> 'shortname=mixed'  This works on my system.  Under the gnome desktop there 
> is a tool Applications>System Tools>Configuration Editor that can be used to 
> override the default setting.  After loading the Configuration Editor, 
> select system>storage>default_options>vfat  and edit the mount_options.

That makes sense, but there were probably good reasons to set
shortname=lower as the default in the first time. I’m cloning the bug to
gnome-mount, in which this could be easily overriden by a gconf default.

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