Problem with Rsync or Users will be Users?

Stuart Halliday StuartH at ecs-tech.com
Thu Feb 22 09:34:07 GMT 2007


Various web sites says this about NTFS files.


Individual file names in NTFS are limited to 255 characters; full paths
are limited to 32,767 characters

This filename is a mere 191 long
Path is a lot less than 32,767... :-)

So how come it is an OS error when Rsync tries to copy it?

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/cygdrive/x/20070221(Wednesday)/Users_profiles/DavidV/Favorites/Pipa
Det/.AC-CESS AC-ROV, ROV, rov, mini ROV, micro ROV, low cost ROV,
inspection class ROV, underwater camera, underwater rov, security
inspection, remote visual inspection, acrov, small rov.url.gt1Uh8
------------------------------------------------------------------------


ref:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS#Limitations


-- 
Stuart Halliday


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