Re: : in file's name using mount_ntfs (not fuse)

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 10:59:22AM +0000, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Nov 2017, trebol wrote:
> > Well, ':' it seems to allowed. From
> > 
> > https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd317748(v=vs.85).aspx
> > 
> > [...] In both NTFS and FAT file systems, the special file name
> > characters are: '\', '/', '.', '?', and '*' [...]
> 
> Windows 7 and 10 disagree, even trying to type a : in a file name gives an
> immediate popup warning.

Ah, I mixed it up. My set of chars was the win32 file name restrictions.

But with posix subsystem or similar you could use more chars, depending on
the file system.

Martin