[SOLVED]Mount Encoding UTF8 VFAT Problem

Summary:

Cannot mount with proper encoding. Result = when I unplug/unmount the USB WD Home Edition and connect it to my laptop all I see is unrecognized characters

Mount Encoding UTF8 VFAT Problem

dclf34 07 Nov 2008 13:55

The case is as follows

Have 2 Hard Drives

A) MBWE 500GB (network western digital world edition)
B) MBHE 500GM (usb western digital world edition)

Steps that cause the problem

1) Set A on my network. Works Fine
2) Mount B on A using usb and the Web InterFace (it gets mounted under /dev/sdb1
The output from the mount command was

# mount
/dev/root on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,data=ordered)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
sys on /sys type sysfs (rw)
/dev/md3 on /var type ext3 (rw,noatime,data=ordered)
/dev/md4 on /shares/internal type ext3 (rw,noatime,data=ordered)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/sdb1 on /shares/external/WD-5000AAJ-External/Partition-1 type vfat (rw,uid=33,gid=33,fmask=0111,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1)

3) Create Directories and Files in Greek characters - directory names, filenames - (I am from Greece …)
4) Unmount B from web interface
5) Connect B to my laptop
6) I get unrecognized characters

I also tried mounting with

# umount /dev/sdb1
# mount -t vfat -o utf8  /dev/sdb1 /shares/external/WD-5000AAJ-External/Partition-1

That gave the output of the mount command as follows…

#mount
/dev/root on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,data=ordered)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
sys on /sys type sysfs (rw)
/dev/md3 on /var type ext3 (rw,noatime,data=ordered)
/dev/md4 on /shares/internal type ext3 (rw,noatime,data=ordered)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/sdb1 on /shares/external/WD-5000AAJ-External/Partition-1 type vfat (rw,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,utf8)

…and also produced the following error in Windows XP when i try to rename a file (in the usb share)

Cannot Rename myfile.mp3 :Access is  Denied
Make sure the disk is not full or right protected an the file is not currently in use

i putty to check permissions.
then go the corresponding Directory

# cd /shares/external/WD-5000AAJ-External/Partition-1/Music
# ls -la
total 224
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  32768 Sep  9 09:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root  32768 Jan  1  1970 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   4096 Jun 30 01:18 Thumbs.db
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 123746 Feb  5  2008 myfile.mp3

However Greek letters are shown fine

What am doing wrong?

Re: Mount Encoding UTF8 VFAT Problem

dclf34 11 Nov 2008 17:05

I found it

For Greece Greek Ellines Xristes Zito

Apla valte to skliro disko epano kai me ssh doste

1. mount -t vfat -o uid=33,gid=33,fmask=0111,dmask=0022,utf8 /dev/sdb1 /shares/external/WD-5000AAJ-External/Partition-1/

Ellada = Macedonia = Thessaloniki