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From: sartin@hplabsz.HP.COM (Rob Sartin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Problems with HP Unix 7.0
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Date: 24 Jan 91 23:13:33 GMT
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In article <1340015@hpuerca.HP.COM> jns@hpuerca.HP.COM (Jeff Squires) writes:
>The filename character limit on a default HP-UX file system is 14 characters
>per SVID -- we do support BSD longfilenames (256 characters) -- you must

Not quite true.  The "default" file system type is the type of your root
filesystem (from mkfs(1m):  "If neither [-L nor -S] option is specified,
mkfs creates a file system of the same type as the root file system.").
If you are upgrading from an old system (pre 7.0 on the 300) your root
filesystem will be 14 character filenames and you may want to use
convertfs to convert all of your filesystems.  I have run with all my
filesystems using long names ever since the feature was available.

See the sysadmin doc and newfs, mkfs and convertfs manual entries
for details.

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