by Sorry if this is yet another question that has a blindingly obvious answer,
but I'm a little stumped.
I was running RedHat 5.1 and had various Windows partitions mounted under
it. I had no problem reading these Windows partitions with long filename
support. This was good, because I keep most (if not all) of my downloaded
Linux software under one of those partitions (I use Cygwin under Windows to
support Unix style filenames).
I wiped out my 5.1 installation and installed RedHat 5.2. I was annoyed to
find that cabaret is no longer part of RedHat 5.2, since it was so easy to
add mounts using that tool, but there you go. I remounted the Windows
partitions using the X-tool linuxconf (or whatever the tool is called), and
selected "VFAT" as the file type.
However, no long filename support. All the filenames are truncated to 8.3
format. What did I do wrong here? I can, of course, move the files to my
Linux partition as needed and rename them, but that is rather annoying.
What did I do wrong and how do I fix it?
Any suggestions? TIA
jdn