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Which characters are invalid for an ext3 filename? I imagine that at least / is an invalid character and probably \0. Is there an official list somewhere?

I'm not exactly sure where to look for this information, so please tell me where you found it.

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An interesting, albeit lengthy, read: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames. – Dennis Williamson Dec 1 '10 at 22:41
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Just those two.

From the wikipedia page on ext3:

Allowed characters in filenames - All bytes except NULL and '/'

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Ah, I didn't see the stats at the side of the wikipedia page. Thanks! – User1 Dec 1 '10 at 21:26
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