On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 08:47:34AM -0600, Guy Fraser wrote: > I use a USB/Firewirewire drive to hold all my MP3's. There are a > number of instances where file names change. > > ALLUPPER.EXT => allupper.ext > > A1234567.EXT => a1234567.ext > > Abcdefgh.Ext => abcdefgh.ext > > It seems that unless you have a non alphanumeric character and > the file name is 8 or less characters the filename is converted > to lowercase. (man mount), search for "shortname=". Can that explain the behavior? > File.EXT and File.ext would both be converted to file.ext and > would cause the conflict. FAT is case-preserving, but case-insensitive. You can't have two files with the "same [case doesn't matter]" name. Mirek