Re: Problem copying files

[Ian Malone]

Tor Harald Thorland  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have tried to copy some files with some norwegian characters in the
> file name.
> FC 2 is not happy with them and keeps complaining that it cannot write
> them.. What can I do to make FC2 accept norwegian characters in
> filenames?

Don't know if I can help, but the people who can probably need to know
more:

Are you doing this from the command line or a filemanager?

Do you have the right permissions?  If creating the new file, do you
have write permission for the directory you're copying to?  Does the
destination file already exist read-only?  (check by ls -lh)
Do you have enough free space (df -h)?

What does
$echo $LANG
say?  (Given FC2, hopefully (something).UTF-8 )

What file systems are you copying to and from (at the very least
the output of mount would be useful)?

What are the names of the files in question?  I managed:

$ touch Skarphéðinn
$ cp Skarphéðinn /tmp
$ ls /tmp/Skarphéðinn
/tmp/Skarphéðinn

Problem copying files

[Tor Harald Thorland]

Sorry about the late answer, but i'm working at sea..

man, 25.10.2004 kl. 19.23 skrev Ian Malone:
> Tor Harald Thorland  wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have tried to copy some files with some norwegian characters in the
> > file name.
> > FC 2 is not happy with them and keeps complaining that it cannot write
> > them.. What can I do to make FC2 accept norwegian characters in
> > filenames?
>
> Don't know if I can help, but the people who can probably need to know
> more:

The kde file manager says the following:
Could not write to /mnt/.....
> Are you doing this from the command line or a filemanager?

I have tried both from the filemanager in KDE and from midnight
commander..
> Do you have the right permissions?  If creating the new file, do you
> have write permission for the directory you're copying to?  Does the
> destination file already exist read-only?  (check by ls -lh)
> Do you have enough free space (df -h)?

It is a flash drive.. I have enough space, the right permissions and so
on.. it is copying all the other files, except for the ones with
norwegian characters..
> What does
> $echo $LANG
> say?  (Given FC2, hopefully (something).UTF-8 )

[tortho@dsl-65-199 Jobb]$ echo $LANG
no_NO.UTF-8
[tortho@dsl-65-199 Jobb]$
> What file systems are you copying to and from (at the very least
> the output of mount would be useful)?

[tortho@dsl-65-199 Jobb]$ mount
/dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
/dev/hda2 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /mnt/flash2 type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=tortho)
[tortho@dsl-65-199 Jobb]$

The one i'm trying to write to is flash2..
> What are the names of the files in question?  I managed:

One of the files is called nødbrannpumpe.doc
> $ touch Skarphéðinn
> $ cp Skarphéðinn /tmp
> $ ls /tmp/Skarphéðinn
> /tmp/Skarphéðinn
>
> -- 
> imalone

Thnx
THT

Problem copying files

[Tom Mitchell]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 12:02:31PM +0100, Tor Harald Thorland wrote:
> man, 25.10.2004 kl. 19.23 skrev Ian Malone:
> > Tor Harald Thorland  wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have tried to copy some files with some norwegian characters in the
> > > file name.

....
> Could not write to /mnt/.....

....
> It is a flash drive.. I have enough space, the right permissions and so
> on.. it is copying all the other files, except for the ones with
> norwegian characters..
> One of the files is called nødbrannpumpe.doc

nødbrannpumpe.doc
00000000: 6e c3 b8 64 62 72 61 6e 6e 70 75 6d 70 65 2e 64 | n..dbrannpumpe.d

$ touch 'nødbrannpumpe.doc'
touch: setting times of `nødbrannpumpe.doc': No such file or directory

The file name is not a legal file name for this type 
of file system.

$ df .
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1                46786         6     46780   1% /mnt/flash1
$ mount
....
/dev/sda1 on /mnt/flash1 type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=bob)
....

If I run strace on touch 'nødbrannpumpe.doc
I see the open() system call fail.
   open("nødbrannpumpe.doc", O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CREAT|O_NOCTTY|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)

A bit of digging may still be required but it looks as if the two
bytes used for the multi byte character "ø" are not in the legal
character set:

(space) ! # $ % & ' ( ) + , - . 0-9 ; = @ A-Z [ ] ^ _ ` a-z { } ~

Problem copying files [SOLVED..]

[Tor Harald Thorland]

Hi,

I have now, 2 min ago changed the name on it, and succsessfully moved it 
to the flash disk.

Thnx.
Tor Harald Thorland

Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 12:02:31PM +0100, Tor Harald Thorland wrote:
> > man, 25.10.2004 kl. 19.23 skrev Ian Malone:
> > > Tor Harald Thorland  wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I have tried to copy some files with some norwegian characters in the
> > > > file name.
>
> ....
> > Could not write to /mnt/.....
>
> ....
> > It is a flash drive.. I have enough space, the right permissions and so
> > on.. it is copying all the other files, except for the ones with
> > norwegian characters..
> > One of the files is called nødbrannpumpe.doc
>
> nødbrannpumpe.doc
> 00000000: 6e c3 b8 64 62 72 61 6e 6e 70 75 6d 70 65 2e 64 | n..dbrannpumpe.d
>
> $ touch 'nødbrannpumpe.doc'
> touch: setting times of `nødbrannpumpe.doc': No such file or directory
>
> The file name is not a legal file name for this type 
> of file system.
>
> $ df .
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1                46786         6     46780   1% /mnt/flash1
> $ mount
> ....
> /dev/sda1 on /mnt/flash1 type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=bob)
> ....
>
> If I run strace on touch 'nødbrannpumpe.doc
> I see the open() system call fail.
>   open("nødbrannpumpe.doc", O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CREAT|O_NOCTTY|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
>
> A bit of digging may still be required but it looks as if the two
> bytes used for the multi byte character "ø" are not in the legal
> character set:
>
> (space) ! # $ % & ' ( ) + , - . 0-9 ; = @ A-Z [ ] ^ _ ` a-z { } ~