Re: rsyncing Wine fails

[Roy Butler <roy.butler@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Shaw wrote:
> Dan Kegel wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:33 PM, David Shaw <dj.shaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> > wrote:
> >  
> > >  it chokes when it gets to the .wine folder - I/O error on every 
> > > single file
> > > and folder within .wine - trying a simple
> > >
> > >  cp -r /home/david/ /media/Portable/backup/
> > >
> > >  has the same effect.  This is repeatable and only .wine is affected 
> > > - which
> > > is why I wonder if it could be something about the way Wine is set up.
> > >     
> >
> > Not terribly likely...
> > What filesystem is your backup volume?
> > Does it allow filenames that start with . ?
> > i.e. does
> >    touch /media/Portable/backup/.foobar
> > succeed?
>
> It's formatted to ext3 and does support .file filenames.  I didn't 
> really expect it to be Wine's fault - it's just the fact that it's only 
> happening when rsync gets to .wine that planted the seeds of doubt - I 
> just wanted to make certain before I started poking into my filesystems.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> David
> //

Testing "cp -r /home/david/.wine/ /var/tmp" would eliminate a lot of the 
variables.  Curious - does wine still work for you w/o issue on this system?


Roy