Re: [PLUG] Convert ext4 Filenames to FAT-compatible Names

Why not convert the flash drive to a modern filesystem, like NTFS? Or even FAT-32, that would at least support long filenames. NTFS write support should be stable enough these days to use without worry.

First thing I always do is convert the default FAT-32 filesystem on most commercial flash drives to NTFS.

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 7:23 AM, Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net> wrote:

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 5:43 AM, Casey Bralla <MailList@nerdworld.org> wrote:
> I don't care so much about perfect preservation of the file names. Simply
> dropping the offending characters and shortening the file names in some
> arbitrary manner would work.
>
> Anybody know of a good filename conversion script?

app-misc/detox
http://detox.sourceforge.net/

I use it occasionally even on ext4 when you download one of those
files with creative file-naming. It does have configurable filter
lists, so you can tune its aggressiveness. Looks like my list of
installed filters that came with it are:
available sequences:
default (*)
iso8859_1
utf_8
uncgi
lower
iso8859_1-only
utf_8-only
uncgi-only
lower-only

For the most part the default is probably fine. I don't know if it
does anything about length, but it will git rid of spaces and most
punctuation, non-ascii, etc.

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Rich
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