2008-03-19 15:19:46 8.3 Filename Issue on Compact Flash

David Kasper (UNITED STATES)

Message: 52768

Does anybody know if a Compact FLASH can be mounted as ext2? When I try to do this I get a fail message when typing "mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /mnt/cf -o rw" at the shell.

I have partitioned hda1 as type 83 but it gets mounted as msdos if I leave out the "-t" above. My main issue is file names are limited to 8.3 format in msdos.

Thanks,

David Kasper

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2008-03-19 16:15:30 Re: 8.3 Filename Issue on Compact Flash

Robin Getz (UNITED STATES)

Message: 52770 David:

I think vfat should work for you.

But, I don't know of a reason why CF cards can not be mounted as ext2

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2008-03-19 16:42:23 Re: 8.3 Filename Issue on Compact Flash

Mike Frysinger (UNITED STATES)

Message: 52772 fdisk doesnt really matter ... that is just a hint to programs as to what filesystem is on there. if you didnt actually format it as ext2, it wont work.

if you dont specify -t, then mount will attempt every filesystem sequentially according to /proc/filesystems. since msdos is listed before vfat, that is the filesystem that gets mounted and thus you are limited to 8.3 filenames.

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2008-03-19 16:50:37 Re: 8.3 Filename Issue on Compact Flash

David Kasper (UNITED STATES)

Message: 52775

Mike,

I am new to this. What should I use to format the Compact Flash? Should I try Partition Magic or is there another method on Linux?

Thanks,

David Kasper

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2008-03-19 17:04:27 Re: 8.3 Filename Issue on Compact Flash

Mike Frysinger (UNITED STATES)

Message: 52776 the utilities to format generally start with "mkfs." ... so if you want to format as ext2, you run `mkfs.ext2 ....`