[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a weird problem that I cannot quite wrap my head around.
I'm in cygwin trying to rsync from /e/ to /f/, using
rsync -Dogx -uav --delete /e/ /f/
I get a LOT of error messages of the type
file has vanished: "/e/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Error.3pm.gz"
file has vanished: "/e/usr/share/man/man3/Gtk2::CodeGen.3pm.gz"
file has vanished: "/e/usr/share/man/man3/Gtk2::Entry.3pm.gz"
If I try to
ls /e/usr/share/man/man3/
then I *also* get lots of error messages that files such as the above
"do not exist". But of course they do exist, othwerwise ls would not
know that it should be complaining about them :). There is a whole
bunch of other files, in the same dir, NOT containing "::" in their
names that is not being complained about.
What gives? It may be relevant that /e and /f are ext2 partitions that
are mounted using the ext2fsd package.
I do not think this is the "rsync unicode , file has vanished" problem
that I have read about on the web, since :: is not unicode.
Does anyone want to suggest a way to get around this? I think since
ls exhibits the same problem it should not be rsync's fault, but it may
possibly relate to ext2fsd rather than cygwin.
You're certainly adding some interesting variables with ext2fsd involved,
particularly when it comes to permissions. But in this case, ':' is a
special character in Windows so you're going to see trouble regardless
of your underlying file-system and driver. The moral of the story is
don't try to do things on Windows that it's not good at. ;-)
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A: Yes.
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