[kde-linux] Folders with all capital letters not copied

[David Jarvie]

On Sun 2 November 2008 22:18:48 Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 02 November 2008 21:24:18 Maximilian B. Rost wrote:
> > KDE 3.5.9
> > Konqueror
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > trying to copy subdirectories with capital letters as CD1, CD2 fails. The
> > subdirectories are copied with small letters cd1, cd2 from harddisk to
> > usb-disk and after creating the subdirectories the content is not copied.
> >
> > The filesystem of the usb-disk is vfat.
> >
> > Are there any tricks except of giving all subdirectories minor letters
> > before copying?
>
> I've never seen any problem in copying any directories, but is it possible
> that you don't own the files in question?
>
> You need to be aware that vfat has problems with capitalisation and cannot
> handle permissions at all.

The solution is to mount the USB drive using the 'shortname=mixed' option to 
the mount command. If you do this, rsync should avoid getting confused.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KAlarm author and maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm