Hi,
On 22/10/2007, Edd Barrett  wrote:

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> 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?

I know what has happened?
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# ls

a_fragile_hope      darkness_prevails

# ls /mnt/usb

palm       volume.nam

# cp -R a_fragile_hope /mnt/usb

cp: /mnt/usb/a_fragile_hope/the_coroner.ogg: No such file or directory

cp: /mnt/usb/a_fragile_hope/as_the_storm_unfolds.ogg: No such file or directory

cp: /mnt/usb/a_fragile_hope/dawn_of_the_first_day.ogg: No such file or directory

cp: /mnt/usb/a_fragile_hope/awaiting_the_flood.ogg: No such file or directory

cp: /mnt/usb/a_fragile_hope/between_two_words.ogg: No such file or directory

cp: /mnt/usb/a_fragile_hope/sirens_chant.ogg: No such file or directory

cp: /mnt/usb/a_fragile_hope/hope.ogg: No such file or directory

cp: /mnt/usb/a_fragile_hope/in_the_absence_of_light.ogg: No such file

or directo

 ry

cp: /mnt/usb/a_fragile_hope/in_absense_of_light.ogg: No such file or directory

cp: /mnt/usb/a_fragile_hope/the_starting.ogg: No such file or directory

cp: /mnt/usb/a_fragile_hope/at_the_end_of_the_tunnel.ogg: No such file

or direct

ory

# ls /mnt/usb

a_frag~1   palm       volume.nam

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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

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# cp -R a_fragile_hope /mnt/usb/a

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Best Regards
Edd
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