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authorBart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net>2008-11-06 15:53:44 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-11-06 18:41:20 -0500
commit8986ab59631b1f2e82ac820c8fd76a34462915ca (patch)
tree94e12cbea8509c7bc121a60f49f836b2633689c7 /Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
parentc1dfda399ace020126547e7d454ba94edc8c8797 (diff)
fat: document additional vfat mount options
While debugging a sync mount regression on vfat I noticed that there were mount options parsed by the driver that were not documented. [hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: fix some parts] Signed-off-by: Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net> Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ if you want to format from within Linux.
8 8
9VFAT MOUNT OPTIONS 9VFAT MOUNT OPTIONS
10---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10----------------------------------------------------------------------
11uid=### -- Set the owner of all files on this filesystem.
12 The default is the uid of current process.
13
14gid=### -- Set the group of all files on this filesystem.
15 The default is the gid of current process.
16
11umask=### -- The permission mask (for files and directories, see umask(1)). 17umask=### -- The permission mask (for files and directories, see umask(1)).
12 The default is the umask of current process. 18 The default is the umask of current process.
13 19
@@ -36,7 +42,7 @@ codepage=### -- Sets the codepage number for converting to shortname
36 characters on FAT filesystem. 42 characters on FAT filesystem.
37 By default, FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE setting is used. 43 By default, FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE setting is used.
38 44
39iocharset=name -- Character set to use for converting between the 45iocharset=<name> -- Character set to use for converting between the
40 encoding is used for user visible filename and 16 bit 46 encoding is used for user visible filename and 16 bit
41 Unicode characters. Long filenames are stored on disk 47 Unicode characters. Long filenames are stored on disk
42 in Unicode format, but Unix for the most part doesn't 48 in Unicode format, but Unix for the most part doesn't
@@ -86,6 +92,8 @@ check=s|r|n -- Case sensitivity checking setting.
86 r: relaxed, case insensitive 92 r: relaxed, case insensitive
87 n: normal, default setting, currently case insensitive 93 n: normal, default setting, currently case insensitive
88 94
95nocase -- This was deprecated for vfat. Use shortname=win95 instead.
96
89shortname=lower|win95|winnt|mixed 97shortname=lower|win95|winnt|mixed
90 -- Shortname display/create setting. 98 -- Shortname display/create setting.
91 lower: convert to lowercase for display, 99 lower: convert to lowercase for display,
@@ -99,11 +107,23 @@ shortname=lower|win95|winnt|mixed
99tz=UTC -- Interpret timestamps as UTC rather than local time. 107tz=UTC -- Interpret timestamps as UTC rather than local time.
100 This option disables the conversion of timestamps 108 This option disables the conversion of timestamps
101 between local time (as used by Windows on FAT) and UTC 109 between local time (as used by Windows on FAT) and UTC
102 (which Linux uses internally). This is particuluarly 110 (which Linux uses internally). This is particularly
103 useful when mounting devices (like digital cameras) 111 useful when mounting devices (like digital cameras)
104 that are set to UTC in order to avoid the pitfalls of 112 that are set to UTC in order to avoid the pitfalls of
105 local time. 113 local time.
106 114
115showexec -- If set, the execute permission bits of the file will be
116 allowed only if the extension part of the name is .EXE,
117 .COM, or .BAT. Not set by default.
118
119debug -- Can be set, but unused by the current implementation.
120
121sys_immutable -- If set, ATTR_SYS attribute on FAT is handled as
122 IMMUTABLE flag on Linux. Not set by default.
123
124flush -- If set, the filesystem will try to flush to disk more
125 early than normal. Not set by default.
126
107<bool>: 0,1,yes,no,true,false 127<bool>: 0,1,yes,no,true,false
108 128
109TODO 129TODO