[TriLUG] SCP & CP Weirdness

Randy Barlow rpbarlow at ncsu.edu
Sat Jan 7 22:18:29 EST 2006


Barry Gaskins wrote:

>   Maybe cp copies files until it gets an error trying to copy one of them
>and then it stops.  Then every file or directory of files that would have
>been copied after that would not even be attempted.
>  
>
I second this guess, as I've had it happen before with a bad HD.  
There's probably a bad file in that 5th directory that it can't copy, 
and it gives up...

-- 
Randy Barlow
Research Assistant
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
rpbarlow at ncsu.edu




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