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On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 11:30:25PM +0100, James Kilty wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 22:55 +0100, Neil Stone wrote: > > what filesystem is on the usb stick ? not all fs's will allow a > > directory not to have text prior to a "." > > Thank you. In this case it is an old mp3 player which I think is FAT12. > I forget what we actually did use, but if it was a portable hard disk I > cannot find it except in media as FREECOM HDD which will not work with > the space (I suppose). I seem to remember he found it in a different > way. > > So. I should jump to home and call it james/.evolution? > > (2)With sudo I got the same as before all "failed to preserve ownership > for xxx: Operation not permitted" using sudo cp -a > james/.evolution /media/disk > > (1)I tried doing this with the same line without sudo and this time I get > cp: cannot create regular file '/media/disk/.evolution/<folder1 > name>:_home_james_.evolution_mail_local#<folder2 name>.xml': invalid > argument. > > At least these are the last few messages, where folder1 is e.g > mail/views/current_view-m_box and folder2 is e.g. computer_dclug_artists > (corresponding to my directory of folders for my mail). > > I am happy to keep trying. How would I find the FREECOM HDD as a file (I > think that's what he said it was)? The filename isn't the issue; the error message says "failed to preserve ownership", which is happening because it's a FAT filesystem that has no way of storing user/group information. They can be ignored, as long as you bear in mind that if/when you copy it back to a real filesystem you'll have to fix the ownership. (The second error, invalid argument, is due I think to the colon in the filename, which IIRC FAT doesn't like). -- Benjamin A'Lee <bma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ "People demand freedom of speech as compensation for the freedom of thought which they have but seldom use." - Søren Kierkegaard
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