On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 17:49:27 +0200 Frank Elsner wrote: > Hi all, > > when doing an rsync of /home to a remote host with options > "--stats -av --hard-links --delete-during" I get > > sending incremental file list > cannot delete non-empty directory: frank/.sylpheed-2.0/imapcache/c64.shuttle.de/frank > cannot delete non-empty directory: frank/.sylpheed-2.0/imapcache/c64.shuttle.de/frank > cannot delete non-empty directory: frank/.sylpheed-2.0/imapcache/c64.shuttle.de > > This is strange because the directory does not exist > > # cd /home > # file frank/.sylpheed-2.0/imapcache/c64.shuttle.de > frank/.sylpheed-2.0/imapcache/c64.shuttle.de: cannot open `frank/.sylpheed-2.0/imapcache/c64.shuttle.de' (No such file or directory) > > Can someone explain that? Yes, *I* can explain. The message is about the destination host where the directory in question still exist. But why not empty with "--delete-during" used since the beginning? Anyway, the oddity no oddity --Frank _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
