I use Cygwin 1.3.17, NTFS file systems, and Win2000 (see
excerpt from cygcheck -s below). Both with cp and mv, I am
getting error messages when copying or moving rather large
directories (1.4 GB, 89,000 files). For example, the command:
$ cp -Rip p:/rchive q:/
starts off fine, but half-way through the job, error messages such
as the following start to appear:
cp: will not create hard link `q:/rchive/foo/bar' to directory
`q:/rchive/fli/bers.gif'
..where the both filename A is always a directory name
and filename B (called a "directory" in the error message)
is usually a file, not a directory.
While showing these messages, cp and mv continue to execute
normally -- with error messages appearing intermittently --
except the directories named by filenames A are not copied,
i.e. the data is lost. (Good thing I was paying attention
and not running these in batch mode!)
I could not find anything relevant in the mailing list archive
or FAQ. Can anyone advise? Is this an inherent limit of
these commands? Should I perhaps be using xargs?
Tom
Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
Current System Time: Sun Jan 12 18:41:03 2003
Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 1
SysDir: C:\WINNT\System32
WinDir: C:\WINNT
Cygwin DLL version info:
DLL version: 1.3.17
DLL epoch: 19
DLL bad signal mask: 19005
DLL old termios: 5
DLL malloc env: 28
API major: 0
API minor: 67
Shared data: 3
DLL identifier: cygwin1
Mount registry: 2
Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
Program options name: Program Options
Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
Cygdrive default prefix:
Build date: Wed Nov 27 18:54:29 EST 2002
Shared id: cygwin1S3
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