Comment 4 for bug 62321

Thanks for your replies.

I'm noticing that a FAT32 hard drive partition I am mounting via /etc/fstab does not have the problem of (incorrectly) being case-sensitive. It (correctly) is case-insensitive.

From my /etc/fstab:

/dev/hdc1 /mnt/fattie vfat user,auto,uid=ropers,gid=ropers,fmask=0111,dmask=0000 0 2

On that partition I cannot create a "New file" and a seperate "new file". I have tried this both with Nautilus and with touch "New file"; touch "new file" at the shell.

Is anybody interested in elucidating why this issue of unwanted case sensitivity would crop up when automounting a FAT32 partition (the one on the USB drive) but not when mounting one (the one on a hard drive) via /etc/fstab?

If fixing this still requires kernel support as Simon suggested, I would be prepared to compose a email to <email address hidden>.

However I feel I'm too incompetent to write a proper message to them. So if this is really an issue that would need kernel changes to be addressed, would anyone here be inclined to help submitting this to the kernel hackers? I don't even know what the name of the automounter daemon is.

Again, many thanks for your help. :)
--Jens