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devicekit-disks package

  1. Bug #428174
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 428174

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In , Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

From Ubuntu bug report:

  "Since the move to DeviceKit for karmic, my removable VFAT-formatted disks are being mounted with shortnames=lower. This breaks e.g. rsync: if a file called "FOO" is created, it will actually appear named "foo". Past bugs -- e.g. https://launchpad.net/bugs/15525 and https://launchpad.net/bugs/76200, amongst others -- concluded that shortnames=winnt (or perhaps shortnames=mixed) was the correct setting, and this was indeed the case in earlier releases.

  shortnames=lower appears to be set in devicekit-disks's src/devkit-disks-device.c."

The proposed patch is pretty straightforward, just changing "shortname=lower" to "shortname=winnt" in src/devkit-disks-device.c. However, we should have a consensus about this and fix it upstream, or not at all.

Was this deliberate or just an oversight? Thanks!