rsync - Oct 2005 - rsync and caps on FAT32 disk

hello,

I plan to use rsync for backing up my data to a FAT32 USB disk. I'm running 
the last Mandriva linux 2006 and my filesystem is ext8 using UFT-8 charset.

I run into a problem with some of my folders that have full caps names on the 
ext3 disk (/home/foo/BAR/ for example). 

When rsync creates the folder on the USB disk, it doesn't 
create /home/foo/BAR/ but /home/foo/bar/. And then complains about a non 
existing folder when it tries to copy /home/foo/BAR/myfile to the USB disk, 
since the USB disk doesn't contain any /home/foo/BAR/ (but does contain 
a /home/foo/bar/).

I don't know how to solve this problem (except avoiding in the future to use
full caps names for directories, but this is not a user-friendly solution...)

Note : if i have a /home/foo/Bar/ it works perfectly. I only saw the problem 
with full caps names.

Thanks,

Alban

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Alban Taraire wrote:
> Subject: rsync and caps on FAT32 disk
> 
> hello,
> 
> I plan to use rsync for backing up my data to a FAT32 USB disk. I'm
running
> the last Mandriva linux 2006 and my filesystem is ext8 using UFT-8 charset.
> 
> I run into a problem with some of my folders that have full caps names on
the
> ext3 disk (/home/foo/BAR/ for example). 
> 
[...]
> I don't know how to solve this problem (except avoiding in the future
to use
> full caps names for directories, but this is not a user-friendly
solution...)
> 
> Note : if i have a /home/foo/Bar/ it works perfectly. I only saw the
problem
> with full caps names.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alban
> 
Could you try 
shortname=winnt
or
shortname=mixed

option when mounting FAT32 disk?
I am not sure which one would be best, but any of them should better than 
the default of shortname=lower.

Or you could use tar/tar.lzo or loopback filesystem on FAT32 (if it needs 
to be FAT32).

Wojtek