Your message dated Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:33:33 -0400
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and subject line Re: Bug#691347: mklost+found: unhelpful error message
has caused the Debian Bug report #691347,
regarding mklost+found: unhelpful error message
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Package: e2fsprogs
Version: 1.42.5-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
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* What led up to the situation?
I ran mklost+found
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Nothing
* What was the outcome of this action?
creat: File name too long
* What outcome did you expect instead?
That mklost+found would work.
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Running mklost+found gives a cryptic error message: creat: File name too long.
I know what that means what the program doesn't tell me is:
1) Which file's name is too long
2) Why it's too long
3) What I can do to remedy the problem.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages e2fsprogs depends on:
ii e2fslibs 1.42.5-1
ii libblkid1 2.20.1-5.2
ii libc6 2.13-35
ii libcomerr2 1.42.5-1
ii libss2 1.42.5-1
ii libuuid1 2.20.1-5.2
ii util-linux 2.20.1-5.2
e2fsprogs recommends no packages.
Versions of packages e2fsprogs suggests:
pn e2fsck-static <none>
ii gpart 0.1h-11+b1
pn parted <none>
-- no debconf information
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tags 691347 +moreinfo
thanks
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 08:04:41PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:52:47AM -0400, Nigel Horne wrote:
> >
> > * What led up to the situation?
> > I ran mklost+found
> > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> > ineffective)?
> > Nothing
> > * What was the outcome of this action?
> > creat: File name too long
> > * What outcome did you expect instead?
> > That mklost+found would work.
>
> Why were you running mklost+found, and what did you expect that it
> would do? This program is largely provided for historical reasons
> (it's shipped with BSD Unix 4.3), but in general, it's largely not
> needed. So I'm kind of curious why you were trying to run it in the
> first place.
>
> As far as the error message, what was the current directory where you
> were trying to run the program, and what file system did you have
> mounted there? It was originally only intended for use on ext2/3/4
> file systems, and I can not reproduce this error messages on those
> file systems.
>
> It looks like you are using some file system which doesn't support
> file names that are 254 bytes long. How long did mklost+found run
> before it gave you this error message?
With no reply, I'm closing this bug.
- Ted
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