kubuntu automounts fat32 volumes with shortname=lower

[c.h.]

Kubuntu/gutsy

When I plug in my (fat32) usb memory stick, kubuntu mounts it with the 'shortname=lower' option. This breaks all kinds of things (rsync and unison to name a couple) because it doesn't properly preserve the case of certain file/folder names on the USB stick (converts all 8.3 file names to lowercase - see 'man mount' for more info).

In Bug 15225, it was decided for ubuntu that the default should be 'shortname=mixed'. Kubuntu should adopt the same default as ubuntu for consistency.

[Miklos Juhasz (mjuhasz)]

I also experience problems with the shortname=lower behaviour, e.g. md5 checksums do not match because some files are missing. In fact they are there, only the parent directory name changed to lowercase on vfat mounting.

FOLDER/file.txt --> folder/file.txt

I was not able to modify the default behaviour.

[Miklos Juhasz (mjuhasz)]

Only GNOME allows the user to set default mount options on a per-filesystem basis.
KDE allows the mount options to be set only on a per-volume basis, not per-filesystem, which is a bug, because for every new device (let's say your friend's USB stick) you have to first not mount it, then change options and then mount. Settings are saved in the $HOME/.kde/share/config/mediamanagerrc
The KDE bug report: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133456

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

The component that handled the automounting in earlier versions of Kubuntu is no longer maintained by KDE, so this bug won't be fixed. Thanks for the bug report all the same.