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With NTFS you can enable or disable case sensitivity. Is there a way to do it with ext4 in Linux?

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    I don't know too much about NTFS, but you can't do that with ext4, there is no known driver for that. Your question seems to be X-Y.
    – 炸鱼薯条德里克
    Dec 13, 2018 at 4:46
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    this would cause random breakages (as seen on macOS which stuck case sensitive unix conventions onto the case insensitive HFS) as some software will have a Makefile but build a temporary makefile, or so forth
    – thrig
    Dec 13, 2018 at 16:03
  • @炸鱼薯条德里克 you can do that with ext4
    – phuclv
    Mar 21, 2021 at 12:07

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There are patches currently under development to implement case insensitivity for ext4.

https://lwn.net/Articles/762826/ https://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=154430575726827&w=2

They were included in the Linux 5.2 kernel, and also require e2fsprogs-1.45 to work. See How to enable new in kernel 5.2 case-insensitivity for ext4 on a given directory?

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Nope. Under linux you can do that to fat,vfat,hpfs,ntfs and to iso9660 w/ rockridge extensions. All linux (unix) native file systems I know are case-sensitive.

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    All linux (unix) native file systems I know are case-sensitive. there are lots of Unix file systems that support case-insensitive file names like Btrfs, ZFS, Reiserfs, XFS, HFS+... and now ext4
    – phuclv
    Mar 21, 2021 at 12:07

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