[TriLUG] SCP & CP Weirdness

Cristobal Palmer cristobalpalmer at gmail.com
Sun Jan 8 18:24:50 EST 2006


On 1/8/06, Mark Freeze <mfreeze at gmail.com> wrote:
> if that doesn't work I guess I'm
> down to copying everything manually.

Before you do that... what happens if you try to make a tarball? Any
weirdness there?

-CMP


> Thanks,
> Mark.
>
>
> On 1/7/06, Randy Barlow <rpbarlow at ncsu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > 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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