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Name: gguyen Date: May 6, 2006 at 13:05:48 Pacific OS: LINUX UBUNTU CPU/Ram: PIII800
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Hello, I am running Ubuntu and mounted FAT32 on one of my folders. But it cant recognize long filename and displays as filena~1 etc. Is there a way to solve this? THanks!
Are you sure that is is mounted as vfat? Did you mount it by hand or by editing fstab? The command should generally look something like: $ sudo mount -t vfat -o umask=0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windoze
The umask=0 option allows for read/write access for all users.
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