[PLUG] strange behavior of a file label on a flash memory USB stick

logical american website.reader3 at gmail.com
Thu May 11 22:23:34 UTC 2017


Recently I noticed something odd occurring with 2 file labels,

     make_Home_categories.txt
     make_home_categories.txt

which were 2 separate files, in my ext4 linux file system in the same 
partition area, /home/owner/.

However when I went to copy these 2 files to the flash drive, only 1 
file was copied.

     make_home_categories.txt

For some reason the flash drive would NOT allow these 2 file names to 
coexist.  I could copy either one, and
the copy took, but whenever I would attempt to do both, only 1 was 
allowed to exist on the flash drive.

Is there any explanation for this odd behavior?  Is some code character 
set not set up right for the flash drive?
How could the drive (or OS) know that only the capital H or small letter 
h was a trigger for copying 1 and only 1 file?

- Randall




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