Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes:

On 03/05/2025 13:09, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

     ldo@theon:caseinsens-try> touch try.dat
     ldo@theon:caseinsens-try> ls -l
     total 0
     -rw-r--r-- 1 ldo users 0 May  3 11:57 try.dat
     ldo@theon:caseinsens-try> mv try.dat TRY.DAT
     mv: 'try.dat' and 'TRY.DAT' are the same file
>
I guess Linux isn’t any better ...

It works on my Linux box (Debian Sid).
Heh heh:
 

And mine (Mint 22)

I would guess that you’re doing the test on a case-dependent filesystem?
With vfat and 9p (to NTFS, in WSL) the behavior is as Lawrence
describes.

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