Comment 3 for bug 482701

That has always been the case, both when it worked prior to Karmic, and
when it failed with Karmic.

Somewhere in this history you should also find that I tried copying to
an extn formatted partition with the same failure.

Today, I applied all updates to my KUbuntu 64-bit AMD 10.10 system and
re-ran the test twice:

NTFS USB drive: Couldn't read some hidden socket files nor the Firebird
data directory. All understandable.

FAT-32: Same issues as above plus it could not write most/all
".evolution" directories...it appears the full blow file name was just
too long, so all email basically lost. No symlinks were copied.
Did not get a single overwrite error message about upper and lower case
file names conflicting, which was the original complaint in this bug.

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On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 21:52 +0000, Andrew McCarthy wrote:

> My guess is that the destination folder, /media/usb_d1/, is an external
> drive formatted with FAT32 or some other windows-style filesystem that
> is case-insensitive. Can you confirm if this is the case? Thanks.
>
> ** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>