RE: Disable 8.3 names on FAT?

Kevin D. Allen ( (no email) )
Fri, 31 Jul 1998 20:25:01 -0700

My suspiscion would be that you can't turn it off in FAT - it wouldn't be a
FAT system anymore - it'd be something else. The only reason NTFS stores
those 8.3 filenames (unless you change the option ) is for FAT
compatibility, and last ditch recovery procedures.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ntisp-request@iea-software.com
> [mailto:ntisp-request@iea-software.com]On Behalf Of Paul Sheahan
> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 1998 3:02 PM
> To: NTMail
> Subject: Disable 8.3 names on FAT?
>
>
> NT has a registry option called "NTFSDisable8dot3NameCreation"
> which you can
> set to disable 8.3 file names. This results in ONLY a LONG filename being
> created for every new file on the system, reducing overhead.
>
> When you create long filenames on a FAT partition under NT, the 8.3 short
> filename is also created (you can view it with "dir/x").
>
> Does anyone know how to turn 8.3 filename creation off on a FAT partition?
> Changing the above registry setting doesn't seem to effect this option on
> FAT partitions, because I can see a short and long filename
> appear in either
> case.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks....
>
>