Thread: how does Busybox remember file/directory name case?
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2014-05-10 , 21:58
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Originally Posted by pycage View Post
Are you doing this on the MyDocs partition?
That is a Windows FAT32-formatted partition (so that it can be exported to any computer you connect the device to) and does not support case-sensitivity.
Yeah I was doing it on my /media/mmc1, which is FAT32. But it's not that it doesn't support case sensitivity, it supports it in a weird way:

Code:
/media/mmc1 $ touch fOo
/media/mmc1 $ ls f*
fOo
/media/mmc1 $ mv fOo foobar
/media/mmc1 $ ls f*     
foobar
/media/mmc1 $ mv foobar foo
/media/mmc1 $ ls f*
fOo
/media/mmc1 $
So, as pichlo noted, it somehow "preserves" case. Why does it do that? I've not seen it elsewhere on *nix shells.
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