Re: Odd msdos fs behaviour [was: Re: Odd FFS behavior]

2007-10-30 Thread ropers
On 25/10/2007, David Vasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Edd Barrett wrote: > > > The directory made has been truncated msdos style. "a_frag~1". > > Therefore when cp tries to copy files into the new directory, it can't > > find the new filename. > > > > The workaround is to do

Re: Odd FFS behavior

2007-10-25 Thread Edd Barrett
On 25/10/2007, Lars Hansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/25/07, Edd Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The workaround is to do something like this, with a shorter filename > > or make sure you have a long filename in the root directory of the > partition or mount with -l. Aha! great. Th

Re: Odd FFS behavior

2007-10-25 Thread Lars Hansson
On 10/25/07, Edd Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The workaround is to do something like this, with a shorter filename or make sure you have a long filename in the root directory of the partition or mount with -l. --- Lars Hansson

Odd msdos fs behaviour [was: Re: Odd FFS behavior]

2007-10-25 Thread David Vasek
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Edd Barrett wrote: The directory made has been truncated msdos style. "a_frag~1". Therefore when cp tries to copy files into the new directory, it can't find the new filename. The workaround is to do something like this, with a shorter filename ---8<--- # cp -R a_fragile_ho

Re: Odd FFS behavior

2007-10-25 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi, On 22/10/2007, Edd Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I have an odd one for you here. Im trying to copy music from a hard > disk(FFS) mounted on /mnt/media. I can play the music with mplayer > just fine, but cp seems to refuse to believe that the files exist. > > Whats going on

Re: Odd FFS behavior

2007-10-22 Thread Aaron W. Hsu
I have experienced similar behaviour, except that, with me, after I do an archive extraction, or a file concatenation of many files, while the file system only shows one set of files, additional files which were deleted after the extraction, continue to be listed as existing when I try to do ope

Re: Odd FFS behavior

2007-10-22 Thread Denise H. G.
David Vasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > >> On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Edd Barrett wrote: >> >>> On 22/10/2007, Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does your target dir /mnt/usb exist? >>> >>> It does. I copied another album onto an SD mounted there

Re: Odd FFS behavior

2007-10-22 Thread David Vasek
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Edd Barrett wrote: On 22/10/2007, Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does your target dir /mnt/usb exist? It does. I copied another album onto an SD mounted there and listened to it on the way to work today. Show a ls -l

Re: Odd FFS behavior

2007-10-22 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Edd Barrett wrote: > On 22/10/2007, Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does your target dir /mnt/usb exist? > > It does. I copied another album onto an SD mounted there and listened > to it on the way to work today. Show a ls -la of the source dir and a stat(1) of

Re: Odd FFS behavior

2007-10-22 Thread Edd Barrett
On 22/10/2007, Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does your target dir /mnt/usb exist? It does. I copied another album onto an SD mounted there and listened to it on the way to work today. -- Best Regards Edd --- http://students.dec.bourn

Re: Odd FFS behavior

2007-10-22 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Edd Barrett wrote: > Hi there, > > I have an odd one for you here. Im trying to copy music from a hard > disk(FFS) mounted on /mnt/media. I can play the music with mplayer > just fine, but cp seems to refuse to believe that the files exist. > > Whats going on? Does your tar