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Does Solaris mount and recognize MS Windows partitions with long file names (VFAT)?

April 26, 2017file Mount MS names partitions recognize Solaris VFAT Windows

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Does Solaris mount and recognize MS Windows partitions with long file names (VFAT)?

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Solaris 2.6 and above uses the “long” (VFAT) file names, but earlier versions of Solaris use the “short” (DOS/FAT/8.3) file name (for example, “progra~1”). Solaris 2.6 recognizes the case (e.g. “Program Files/”), which may be optionally folded to lower case (“program files”) with the foldcase mount option. Earlier “Solari” folds DOS file names to lower case only. VFAT refers to the file naming convention and is completely separate from FAT16/FAT32 (see a earlier question for that).