HELP - cp

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Fri Mar 26 10:30:00 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 18:14 +0800, Kelvin Chan wrote:
> I encounter a problem as I copy folder with all files to a usb disk.
>
> command>>
> Kelotus:/ Kelotus$ cp -R Documents dev/disk1s1/www
>
> result>>
> cp: dev/disk1s1/www: Not a directory
> or 
> cp: /dev/disk1: Resource busy

Copy files to a file system location on the directory tree, not directly
to the device.

> /dev/disk1s1 on /Volumes/IPTGA-K (msdos, local, nodev, nosuid, 

According to your mount list, "/dev/disk1s1" is mounted at
"/Volumes/IPTGA-K", so that's where you should be copying to.


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