I am trying to copy a folder over to a new drive and am using rsync. Is there something I am missing here causing this error? No matter where I try this from even from “/” I get this kind of error. Even from /data/adata/ I get the “No such file or directory” error The directory and files exist.
flamebait@fuuyuu:/data> ls
⁄adata lost+found
flamebait@fuuyuu:/data> rsync -av /data/adata/"Spring 2011" /Four/NewPlace
sending incremental file list
rsync: change_dir "/data/adata" failed: No such file or directory (2)
sent 12 bytes received 12 bytes 48.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1042) [sender=3.0.7]
flamebait@fuuyuu:/data> cd /data/adata/
bash: cd: /data/adata/: No such file or directory
flamebait@fuuyuu:/data> cd /data/adata
bash: cd: /data/adata: No such file or directory
That ⁄ in front of adata is not a slash but a Unicode solidus (I think that’s the name of the symbol). Somehow you managed to type this in when creating the directory. Normally a slash would not appear in front of a directory name in a ls listing anyway. You have to rename ⁄adata to just adata. Try this:
Unless you know how to type in a solidus again, you should cut and paste the name from your code block or my code block to get the solidus. Again, it’s not a slash, so don’t type that, it won’t work.
I’ll use konqueror and SU and do it graphically the same way I created it I think . I have a bunch of links on my desktop and NFS shares I have to fix too.
On 10/17/2011 04:46 AM, FlameBait wrote:
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> I’ll use konqueror and SU and do it graphically the same way I created
> it I think .
ok, if you open the directory at /data in konqueror, and wish to add a
sub directory named adata, then right click in the directory and select
“create new” > “folder” and in the blank type the name of the
sub-directory (which is) adata (not) /adata (and also not “[Unicode
solidus]adata”)
however, i think since you named it “[Unicode solidus]adata” your
initial problem might go away if you tried the rsync this way
WAIT!! i can’t duplicate what i thought you did…i just launched
konqueror from kdesu, navigated to a user’s home (say) /home/test, right
clicked and tried to add “/sub-test” and the new directory did NOT land
as /home/test/sub-test, instead it landed as /sub-test (in the root
partition) so, maybe the same happened to you?? and you stopped trying
to name it /adata and instead named it “[Unicode solidus]adata”??
strange how it happened…
and, i have a question: is “Four” a root directory on the same partition?
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DD
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I have no idea how I created that sub-directory It’s been around a long time. /data is the root partiton and /adata was a a directory under it. I kdesued konqueror and I renamed it adata . I changed all the hooks to it and all is fine. I still don’t know how I created that directory. I must have been suffering from a major case of blind.
No /Four is actually the root partition on a separate drive. I was moving some 80 gig directories over to that drive when I stumbled on this self created issue.
On 2011-10-17 03:56, FlameBait wrote:
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> I am trying to copy a folder over to a new drive and am using rsync. Is
> there something I am missing here causing this error? No matter where I
> try this from even from “/” I get this kind of error. Even from
> /data/adata/ I get the “No such file or directory” error The directory
> and files exist.
Maybe not. Or not with the name you think it has. Like an space at the end.
You can not even cd to that directory, so it does not exist.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
