http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627354 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627354#c0 Summary: No way in KDE to specify mount options for vfat media (USB stick, memory cards, ..) Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.3 Version: Final Platform: All OS/Version: openSUSE 11.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: KDE4 Workspace AssignedTo: kde-maintainers@suse.de ReportedBy: krienke@uni-koblenz.de QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100723 SUSE/3.6.8-0.1.1 Firefox/3.6.8 In general the problem is that KDE or the underlying system like udisks offers no way to specify mount options to be used when mounting VFAT media via the device monitoring and mounting KDE plasmoid. As a result the user does have no control over the way files on these media appear regarding eg case of filenames. In particular there was a change in the kernel that openSUSE 11.3 uses so that a vfat mount without options uses shortname=mixed instead of shortname=lower which was the default before. As a result in earlier openSUSE versions if I inserted a SD-flash media from my photo camera all photos were displayed with lower case (which was what I wanted) but now since 11.3 they are displayed all in upper case and there is no way for me to tell the system to show and especially copy them as lower case. So now I have to copy them tomy harddisk first and then as a next step to rename all of them so they are lower case, which is extra work that would not have to be done if the system would allow me to see the files on the media the way I like it (in lower case). A solution for a single system might perhaps be a fstab based mount using the correct shortname=lower mount option, but this is not a solution if you consider a hundreds of linux systems like here at the university and a hundereds of different linux users wanting to plug in different USB-media with different partitioning and different wishes eg regarding file names (upper, lower case, ...). This is not solvable by an fstab based approach but only by letting the user decide how he wants to see the files on his vfat device, which is not possible up to now. The strange thing is that upper case display of files is used when I insert a sd-card written by my Nikon D80 camera. If I insert an vfat formatted USB stick files appear in lower case. Heaven knows why. I probably depends on the exact behaviour of the default mount option shortname=mixed. If there is a way to tell 11.3 to always mount vfat media using mount option shortname=lower not using fstab, then please let me know. Thanks Rainer Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.