Bug 11022

Summary: case-sensitive volume names on FAT
Product: hal Reporter: Allison Lortie (desrt) <desrt>
Component: haldAssignee: David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail) <zeuthen>
Status: RESOLVED NOTOURBUG QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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i915 platform: i915 features:
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Bug Blocks: 10363    

Description Allison Lortie (desrt) 2007-05-21 13:15:48 UTC 
FAT has about 3 places that it stores the volume label:

1) in the boot sector
2) as an oldschool directory entry in the root directory
3) as a vfat entry for the root directory

only the vfat entry allows for mixed case.

my ipod is called "jPod" ::


desrt@moonpix:~$ sudo mdir -i /dev/sdc2 :: 
 Volume in drive : is jPod (abbr=JPOD       )
 Volume Serial Number is 7B9F-661C
Directory for ::/


but hal shows it as "JPOD" and causes nautilus to show it as such.

this needs to be fixed before hal supports renaming volumes in any meaningful way.
Comment 1 Allison Lortie (desrt) 2007-05-22 23:17:33 UTC 
durrr.  libvolume_id doesn't live in HAL anymore.

patch forwarded upstream.

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