Re: [Bug] vfat: Not a git archive

From: Thomas Christensen <thomasc@thomaschristensen.org>
Date: Jun 2, 2008, 11:05 UTC
Message-ID: <878wxo5c79.fsf@debian.erik.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080602103909.GB11287@mithlond.arda.local>

Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:

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> Thomas Christensen wrote (2008-06-02 12:20 +0200):
>
> Hmm, for example KDE automatically mounts VFAT filesystems with mount
> option "utf8" when using UTF-8 locale. VFAT uses UTF-16 in filenames and
> the only way to convert filenames losslessly (apart from the case
> insensitive issue) between Linux and VFAT is to use UTF-8 locale in
> Linux. I have described the subject in the Debian bug #417324:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=417324
>
> What locale are you using? What mount options did you use when you
> mounted the /media/KINGSTON/ filesystem?

LANG=en_DK.UTF-8

/dev/sda1 on /media/KINGSTON type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,uid=1000)

It is auto mounted by the Gnome desktop. I have tried to mount it manually without mount options as well:

/dev/sda1 on /mnt type vfat (rw)

But alas, same problem. I have been fiddling with the shortname option and iocharset too, also without success.

	Thomas