[thelist] Linux Port to Home - Solved

> this is great (I have a dual boot machine with windows partitions
> on /asmodeus /beelzebub and /cheitan ;) ), the only thing that
> sucks is that your filenames get mussed if they're longer than
> 8.3. (If anyone knows a way around that, I'd love to hear it).
> Which might not matter to Ron, but is why I didn't mention it.

Shouldn't happen if you mount the drive as 'vfat'; certainly not if the
Windows partition is FAT32 (thinking about it, this is probably the key). If
you've got FAT32-capable windows (win '95 OSR2 onwards / windows 2000), I'd
recommend it anyway - FAT32 can use clusters much more efficiently than
FAT16, so you get more storage for your MB :)

Bear in mind too that vfat support may well be better in later versions of
the kernel - if you've got a relatively old distro, it might be time to
download a newer kernel source and recompile that sucker!