vfat and Upper Case?

[Patrick JACQUOT]

Pat Suwalski wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've been trying to figure this out for months now, so I will attempt 
> to get help without resorting to a shrink. :)
>
> I'm on a Gentoo system, with kernel 2.6.12, udev 084, hal 0.5.5.1. 
> Gnome 2.12.
>
> Until the 2.6.11 (or .12) kernel, my USB-storage, vfat camera would 
> display filenames lowercase. Since then, it uses uppercase.
>
> It's clearly because of the shortname mount option, and it behaves 
> properly when I set it from "winnt" to "lower":
>
> /dev/sdb1 on /media/SANVOL type vfat 
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,quiet,shortname=winnt,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=077,iocharset=utf8) 
>
>
> However, I can't figure out where those mount options are set. All I 
> know is that I have to rename each file I get from my camera, or mount 
> manually. I suspect the problem may be pmount, but I don't know.
>
> Below is some dmesg output. Thanks for any help!
>
> --Pat
>
>
> usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 7
> scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> usb-storage: device found at 7
> usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
>   Vendor: Casio     Model: QV DigitalCamera  Rev: 5010
>   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> SCSI device sdb: 499712 512-byte hdwr sectors (256 MB)
> sdb: Write Protect is off
> sdb: Mode Sense: 00 46 02 00
> sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
> SCSI device sdb: 499712 512-byte hdwr sectors (256 MB)
> sdb: Write Protect is off
> sdb: Mode Sense: 00 46 02 00
> sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
>  sdb: sdb1
> Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> usb-storage: device scan complete
> FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, 
> filesystem will be case sensitive!
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Maybe you should add it the options:
shortnames=mixed