GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 554031
please make shortname=mixed the default for vfat
Last modified: 2010-10-16 01:57:55 UTC
Please describe the problem: Forwarding these two bugs from the Debian BTS: http://bugs.debian.org/476903 http://bugs.debian.org/497121 In short: This file: /usr/share/gconf/schemas/gnome-mount.schemas Contains this: <default>[shortname=lower,uid=]</default> This is wrong because it makes files who have all-uppercase names in Windows are listed as all-lowercase on GNOME. This should be changed to this so that GNOME and Windows show the filenames exactly the same: <default>[shortname=mixed,uid=]</default> Ideally it would change in the kernel, but gnome-mount needs to change too. Steps to reproduce: Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information:
This should be mixed. With shortname=lower, it's impossible to create git repositories on an usb stick(!). My usecase is simply to create a bare git repository on a usb stick, and push to it for backup. Now, with shortname=lower, this happens: cd /mount/usbstick mkdir bup.git cd bup.git git init --bare git branch -a fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git Git creates a file HEAD, but it is rendered as head.
I've sent a patch for Linux to the Linux fat fs maintainer, hopefully it will be included in Linux 2.6.31. In any case gnome-media also needs to change its overrides, either to remove shortname=lower or change it to shortname=mixed. I guess people will want to run newer GNOME on older kernels sometimes so changing it to shortname=mixed might be best.
This bug was reported against a version which is not supported any more. Developers are no longer working on this version so there will not be any bug fixes for it. Can you please check again if the issue you reported here still happens in a recent version of GNOME and update this report by adding a comment and adjusting the 'Version' field? Again thank you for reporting this and sorry that it could not be fixed for the version you originally used here. Without feedback this report will be closed as INCOMPLETE after 6 weeks.
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!