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authorHirofumi Ogawa <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>2004-07-10 19:31:42 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2004-07-10 19:31:42 -0700
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[PATCH] FAT: update document
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt32
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
index e41109f88daca7..5ead20c6c7443f 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
@@ -10,23 +10,35 @@ VFAT MOUNT OPTIONS
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umask=### -- The permission mask (for files and directories, see umask(1)).
The default is the umask of current process.
+
dmask=### -- The permission mask for the directory.
The default is the umask of current process.
+
fmask=### -- The permission mask for files.
The default is the umask of current process.
-codepage=### -- Sets the codepage for converting to shortname characters
- on FAT and VFAT filesystems. By default, codepage 437
- is used. This is the default for the U.S. and some
- European countries.
-iocharset=name -- Character set to use for converting between 8 bit characters
- and 16 bit Unicode characters. Long filenames are stored on
- disk in Unicode format, but Unix for the most part doesn't
- know how to deal with Unicode. There is also an option of
- doing UTF8 translations with the utf8 option.
+
+codepage=### -- Sets the codepage number for converting to shortname
+ characters on FAT filesystem.
+ By default, FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE setting is used.
+
+iocharset=name -- Character set to use for converting between the
+ encoding is used for user visible filename and 16 bit
+ Unicode characters. Long filenames are stored on disk
+ in Unicode format, but Unix for the most part doesn't
+ know how to deal with Unicode.
+ By default, FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET setting is used.
+
+ There is also an option of doing UTF8 translations
+ with the utf8 option.
+
+ NOTE: "iocharset=utf8" is not recommended. If unsure,
+ you should consider the following option instead.
+
utf8=<bool> -- UTF8 is the filesystem safe version of Unicode that
is used by the console. It can be be enabled for the
filesystem with this option. If 'uni_xlate' gets set,
UTF8 gets disabled.
+
uni_xlate=<bool> -- Translate unhandled Unicode characters to special
escaped sequences. This would let you backup and
restore filenames that are created with any Unicode
@@ -37,6 +49,7 @@ uni_xlate=<bool> -- Translate unhandled Unicode characters to special
illegal on the vfat filesystem. The escape sequence
that gets used is ':' and the four digits of hexadecimal
unicode.
+
nonumtail=<bool> -- When creating 8.3 aliases, normally the alias will
end in '~1' or tilde followed by some number. If this
option is set, then if the filename is
@@ -45,6 +58,7 @@ nonumtail=<bool> -- When creating 8.3 aliases, normally the alias will
be the short alias instead of 'longfi~1.txt'.
quiet -- Stops printing certain warning messages.
+
check=s|r|n -- Case sensitivity checking setting.
s: strict, case sensitive
r: relaxed, case insensitive