[TriLUG] question about mounting USB keys and case

[Rick DeNatale]

On 9/6/06, Dan <trilug at daijin.router5.com> wrote:
> I'm using the latest Ubuntu... when I plug my USB disk into the laptop I
> get an automatic mount  with something like '/media/usbdisk' as the
> mount point but all of the file names are upper case.  If I dismount the
> drive and remount with a 'mount /dev/sda1 ./tmp' I get all files in
> lower case.  I think this is because I am dealing with a native FAT32
> partion... the real question is how I can make the auto mount give me
> lower case as well?

I guess the first step is to figure out how it's automounting the
drive.  I'd look to see if the mount point or the drive shows up in
/etc/fstab or in one of /etc/auto.*  (or actually one of the files
called out in /etc/auto.master

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