Upper/Lowercase

[Luigi M Bianchi]

I run XP Pro SP2, fully patched on an IBM TP60 laptop. Today I
discovered that in a directory on an external USB drive I have a couple
of 'duplicate' file which differ only(*) by the case

file.txt
FILE.TXT

(*) Actually they have different dates, and the content is slightly
different (it is a file I periodically edit).

If I try to xcopy a new copy of file.txt, the lower case file gets
updated, and then I am asked if I want to overwrite the uppercase file
too. So far I have declined, because first I would like to understand
what happens.

As far as I know, I have only used xcopy with these files--i.e. no
Explorer or other file managers.

I checked, and neither file is a hard link.

The dir command shows both files, and so does Explorer.

Just in case, no--I do not have MS Unix extensions, although I use
Cygwin.

Thank you in advance for any help.

/luigi

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I run XP Pro SP2, fully patched on an IBM TP60 laptop. Today I
discovered that in a directory on an external USB drive I have a couple
of 'duplicate' file which differ only(*) by the case

file.txt
FILE.TXT

(*) Actually they have different dates, and the content is slightly
different (it is a file I periodically edit).

If I try to xcopy a new copy of file.txt, the lower case file gets
updated, and then I am asked if I want to overwrite the uppercase file
too. So far I have declined, because first I would like to understand
what happens.

As far as I know, I have only used xcopy with these files--i.e. no
Explorer or other file managers.

I checked, and neither file is a hard link.

The dir command shows both files, and so does Explorer.

Just in case, no--I do not have MS Unix extensions, although I use
Cygwin.

Thank you in advance for any help.

/luigi

Let's have a look at the xcopy command you use.

 

[Luigi M Bianchi]

Here is the partial dir of f:\backups:

...
file.txt
FILE.TXT
...

Here is the xcopy cmd from drive c:

xcopy file.txt f:\backups\ /Y

file.txt gets overwritten, and then I am asked if I want to overwrite
FILE.TXT.


Here is also something I did not mention in my original posting. The f:
and c: drive are NTFS. I have a loptop that runs Fedora 8, and I
occasionally mount the the "f:" drive on it. Fedora 8 has no problem
reading and writing to the drive.

I now wonder whether this may be responsible for the case issue.

/luigi




/luigi

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I have no experience with Fedora but I suspect that the file
system has become partially case sensitive.