Re: VFAT: Can't create file named 'aux.h'?

[linux-os (Dick Johnson)]

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Dirk Reiners wrote:

>
> 	Hi everybody,
>
> while trying to back up a couple Linux directories to a FAT disk I ran
> into a weird situation: I can't create a file called aux.h on the FAT
> system!
>
> Here's how to reproduce it:
>
> cd /tmp
> dd if=/dev/zero of=vfat_img bs=1M count=1
> /sbin/losetup /dev/loop7 vfat_img
> /sbin/mkfs.vfat /dev/loop7
> mkdir vfat_mnt
> mount -t vfat /dev/loop7 vfat_mnt
> touch vfat_mnt/auy.h
> touch vfat_mnt/aux.h
>
> auy.h is happily created, aux.h gives "touch: setting times of
> `vfat_mnt/aux.h': No such file or directory", and no file is created.
> This happened to me on the system described below, but I could reproduce
> the same behavior on a system booted from RHEL4 CDs, an old Knoppix
> (3.4), and friends could reproduce it on other systems, too, so it
> doesn't seem to be very related to a specific version.
>
> As a workaround I tar/bzipped my dirs, but that behavior seems very
> unusual and doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in vfat... What am I
> missing here?
>
> Thanks
>
> 	Dirk

[SNIPPED...]

Special file under DOS: "CON", "AUX", "PRN", and a few others! The
"extension" isn't checked.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.15.4 on an i686 machine (5589.48 BogoMips).
Warning : 98.36% of all statistics are fiction, book release in April.
_


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