To disable case sensitivity and optionally specify the case of file names returned by Server for NFS, at a command prompt, type the following:. The default case sensitivity is preserve preserve case. Microsoft states ;. In NTFS, names preserve case, but are not case sensitive. NTFS makes no distinction of filenames based on case.
Allowing case-sensitivity under Windows would allow malware to create files that the user can't access or delete, so it is not allowed for a good reason.
In any case, I am quite sure that if you managed to make NTFS case-sensitive, Windows will crash and re-installation will be the only solution. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. How do you make Windows 7 fully case-sensitive with respect to the filesystem?
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You must restart for this to take effect. William: I believe you only need to terminate all Cygwin processes and services like Apache , sshd , etc.
That should be enough, as cygwin1. To be more accurate: Actually it depends of the software that accesses the FS. Actually, on a FS level before additional processing it IS case sensitive, however, NTFS translates all file names to all uppercase and when one with lowercase characters is entered translates it to uppercase then looks for said file. You are right. I just tried to explain it simpler.
I cannot believe there is NO call to do this. I'm fairly sure that the standard Java runtime i. Of course if they are inside a. Show 1 more comment. It looks like you have to change kernel settings. Beware of updates though. EDIT: Watch out though, some programs might depend on case insensitivity.
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Well, the whole page only is a paragraph. I'll make a quick edit though. Thanks tjameson. Regarding programs that might depend on case insensitivity, this is indeed a big problem. Shoot, I'm at a loss trying to figure out how to copy things over from Linux to Windows, and I've found myself in a situation where folders of the same spelling with different caps exist in one location. Well, the only thing I can think of is to conflicts manually.
If you copy files over, Windows should ask you if you want to merge or make a copy or something. I can't remember I'm a linux man myself. Show 4 more comments. Looks like you do not have to change the kernel to allow case sensitive lookups on the network. If necessary, connect to the computer you want to manage. Click the Filename Handling tab. I'm the only developer who's working on Windows in my team and we wanna keep it that way for cross-OS checks , and I'm the one producing occasional errors due to Windows not crashing on files with different cases.
Is there any way to make Windows go crazy when I try to include 'aSdF. You do just about have to call CreateFile directly to do that though -- a typical standard library e.
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I've got serious troubles with Windows 7 not having a case-sensitive file system. Sherlock Sherlock 7, 6 6 gold badges 34 34 silver badges 76 76 bronze badges. Try: superuser. Always use lower case file names and you are safe. MarcB: thanks for that!
Styxxy: yeah, sounds like that'd work with autoloaders and tens of thousands of files all with case sensitive ClAsS nAmEs and corresponding file names Add a comment.
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