topic Re: PFS_MOUNTING A VENDOR'S DISK in Operating System - HP-UX

PFS_MOUNTING A VENDOR'S DISK

frederick hannah — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:34:29 GMT

I know pfs isnt supported anymore, but does anyone have tribal knowledge of why a cdrom, when pfs mounted, have a period at the end of all its files? Example, "install." I am told there is an option to remove the special character. Can anyone help?

Re: PFS_MOUNTING A VENDOR'S DISK

Steven Schweda — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:57:01 GMT

Period, not semi-colon? The ISO 9660 file
system was designed to accomodate VMS (among
other operating systems), so it tends to
specify names of the form "NAME.TYPE;VERSION",
where the punctuation is required.
Different operating systems (or related
programs) may try to hide some of all of the
features in these names, by dropping the
";VERSION", lowering the upper-case names,
and, perhaps, dropping the trailing "." when
there is no non-null ".TYPE".

What the pfs stuff does is a mystery to me,
however.

Re: PFS_MOUNTING A VENDOR'S DISK

Torsten. — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:02:27 GMT

Many threads about this and possible solutions, like this:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=629815

Re: PFS_MOUNTING A VENDOR'S DISK

frederick hannah — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:05:31 GMT

Thanks all. It seems everyone has given up on pfs as a mounting tool. I will use the alternative I saw in one of your responses.

Re: PFS_MOUNTING A VENDOR'S DISK

frederick hannah — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:06:16 GMT

Re: PFS_MOUNTING A VENDOR'S DISK

Torsten. — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:20:04 GMT

If your problem is solved now, please read this:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#33