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reikred AT gmail DOT com schrieb:
> 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.

Try mounting those two as managed.

mount -f -s -b -o managed "e:/usr" /e/usr
mount -f -s -b -o managed "f:/usr" /f/usr

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Reini Urban
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