2009/11/23 HighlyCaffeinated <javatodd32@xxxxxxxxx>: > > Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:20:56 +0100 > From: Peter Evertz <leo2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Odd filesystem errors > To: VDR Mailing List <vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <4B093AB8.4000905@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Klaus Schmidinger schrieb: >> On 07.11.2009 02:07, HighlyCaffeinated wrote: >> >>> I've got an unusual situation with my VDR installation > ...<snip>... >>> bothersome. >>> > That is "normal" situation on a samba share that has (windows) "illegal" > characters in it's name. > eg: "CSI: Next Session" is illegal because of the ":" and will be > translated to something like you have seen on the windows box. > > Peter > >> >> Can you check the syslog file to see what names VDR used to create >> the recording directories? >> >> Klaus >> >> _______________________________________________ >> vdr mailing list >> vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx >> http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr >> >> > > Peter: > I am not too concerned with the existence of a tilde in the filename. If the > filename had been created per your example, I would have expected Windows to > display it as "CSI_Ne~1". A recent directory shows in Linux as > NCIS:_Los_Angeles as it should. My concern is that I cannot see (and > therefore manipulate or delete) these directories in Linux. Linux will not > show the directory names or inodes. Windows does, but the names are illegal > and so won't operate on them. > > > Klaus: > I will keep an eye out for the creation of any more such directories but > cron took care of the syslog files long before I noticed that the > directories were there. > > Anyone: Any clue how to delete the directories besides formatting the > partition? > > Thanks for your help! > -Todd > what does this return ? find /video0 > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr > > _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr