X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <486C9DF0.6000301@x-ray.at> Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:37:52 +0200 From: Reini Urban User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080313 SeaMonkey/1.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: filenames containing ::, rsync and "file has vanished", ext2fsd being used References: <486C3F1A.9040706@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <486C3F1A.9040706@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com reikred@gmail.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 -- Reini Urban http://phpwiki.org/ http://murbreak.at/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/