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Posted: April 08 2006,03:51 QUOTE
I'm thinking of wether I should take the plunge to have a persistent /home on my pendrive. I use backup/restore now because the gzip'ed file preserves lower/uppercase/ownerships ..etc of the files. This is important for my development files cos' a wrong case in any of them gives a compile error.

I'm asking anyone who has ever had any lower/upper case problems with linux files being on vfat , because I have on one or two occasions although I could not reproduce the results.
Once I could not change the first character of a directory to lower/upper case and several times I found everything had changed to
either lowercase or uppercase. This may have something to do with accessing files via windoze at the office, i'm not really sure.

anyfeed back is much appreciated.
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Posted: April 08 2006,22:44 QUOTE
I have , Linux always has been case sensitive where windows does not care. One othe issue has been with the 8 character limits for file names (such as "proga~1" instead of "program files")

Becareful with windows long file names... sometimes I have corrupted them by copying or renaming under linux.
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Posted: April 09 2006,04:27 QUOTE
Usually I don't touch any of my linux files in windoze, but somehow they are affected. The weirdest time was trying to
create a new directory in linux e.g' mydir', only to see the
result as 'Mydir' , no matter how I changed it under emelfm or
bash, it would always capitalize.???
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Posted: April 09 2006,06:34 QUOTE
All your capital issues are taking place on vfat 32 only right, your not using Windows 95 are you?
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Posted: April 17 2006,02:49 QUOTE
that's right.
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