{"id":703,"date":"2015-10-08T13:41:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T13:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vickistan.com\/?p=703"},"modified":"2015-10-08T13:56:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T13:56:41","slug":"case-sensitivity-in-various-operating-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/?p=703","title":{"rendered":"Case Sensitivity in various Filesystems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a filesystem is created, case-sensitivity and case-preservation is configurable.<\/p>\n<p>In Unix filesystems, filenames are usually case-sensitive.<\/p>\n<p>Windows is a mish-mash of case-sensitivity:<br \/>\nFAT12 filesystem was case-insensitive<br \/>\nWindows filesystems (VFAT, FAT32) are not case-sensitive but are case-preserving<br \/>\nNTFS is case-sensitive, but the API for file access in Windows applications is case-insensitive, which makes filenames case-insensitive from the application&#8217;s point of view. <\/p>\n<p>Mac OS is unusual in that it uses HFS+ in a case insensitive but case preserving mode by default. (reset with http:\/\/www.digitaltransitions.ca\/blog\/files\/acl-settings.php)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a filesystem is created, case-sensitivity and case-preservation is configurable. In Unix filesystems, filenames are usually case-sensitive. Windows is a mish-mash of case-sensitivity: FAT12 filesystem was case-insensitive Windows filesystems (VFAT, FAT32) are not case-sensitive but are case-preserving NTFS is case-sensitive, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/?p=703\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":706,"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}