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ole



Joined: 11 Dec 2005
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PostPosted: 08/23/09 - 10:11    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi there. I have a dual boot computer. On one partition I have Windows 98SE and on another partition I have Ubuntu Linux. I have mounted Windows 98 partition as DOS FAT32 (as I should, right?) but long filenames are changed to something like “progra~1”. I have booted Windows to check this problem but file names are normal there. Do you know what is the problem here?
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erick



Joined: 16 Nov 2006
Posts: 29
PostPosted: 09/22/09 - 01:50    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hello there. You should mount Windows 98 partition as “vfat” because DOS didn't supported long file names. It had restriction to eight letters for name and three letters for extension and that is exactly what you get when you mount FAT32 partition as you did. I hope this answer helped you to solve you issue with long filenames.
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