by When vfat is mounted, it is case insensitive for full names and case
sensitive with wild cards.
$ ll -d abba
drwxrwxr-x 4 root users 8192 Feb 5 23:01 abba
$ ll -d ABBA
drwxrwxr-x 4 root users 8192 Feb 5 23:01 ABBA
$ ll -d Aerosmith
drwxrwxr-x 3 root users 8192 Feb 5 14:05 Aerosmith
$ ll -d AEROSMITH
drwxrwxr-x 3 root users 8192 Feb 5 14:05 AEROSMITH
$ ll -d Ae*
ls: Ae*: No such file or directory
$ ll -d AE*
drwxrwxr-x 3 root users 8192 Feb 5 14:05 AEROSMITH
$ ll -d ab*
drwxrwxr-x 4 root users 8192 Feb 5 23:01 abba
$ ll -d AB*
ls: AB*: No such file or directory
I have one problem directory (abba) that I need to make uppercase.
It is always lower case no matter what I have tried.
The line from my /etc/fstab
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/win-data vfat noatime,user,gid=users,umask=002
0 0
Maybe it happens to be the only directory that wasn't created mixed case
so it only has the MSDOS name.
$ mv abba ABBA2
# ll -d ABBA2
drwxrwxr-x 4 root users 8192 Feb 5 23:01 ABBA2
$ mv ABBA2 ABBA
# ll -d ABBA
drwxrwxr-x 4 root users 8192 Feb 5 23:01 ABBA
# exit
$ ll -d abba
drwxrwxr-x 4 root users 8192 Feb 5 23:01 abba
ll -d AB*
ls: AB*: No such file or directory
$ ll -d ab*
drwxrwxr-x 4 root users 8192 Feb 5 23:01 abba
$ ll -d Aerosmith
drwxrwxr-x 3 root users 8192 Feb 5 14:05 Aerosmith
$ ll -d AEROSMITH
drwxrwxr-x 3 root users 8192 Feb 5 14:05 AEROSMITH
$ ll -d Ae*
ls: Ae*: No such file or directory
$ ll -d AE*
drwxrwxr-x 3 root users 8192 Feb 5 14:05 AEROSMITH