Re: [CentOS] Problem copying files to flash drive

2008-08-18 Thread MHR
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Ralph Angenendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IIRC FAT(32?) has a limit of 512 files in the root directory. > Me, too, but there weren't that many files total, and a lot of those were in subdirectories. mhr ___ CentOS m

Re: [CentOS] Problem copying files to flash drive

2008-08-18 Thread Ralph Angenendt
MHR wrote: > Remember, I _was_ able to copy all the files to a directory on the > flash drive, just not the root directory. Most of the files were > image files, although there were others, too IIRC FAT(32?) has a limit of 512 files in the root directory. Ralph pgp131IjVyfnS.pgp Description

Re: [CentOS] Problem copying files to flash drive

2008-08-18 Thread MHR
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 1:10 PM, NiftyClusters Mitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sparse files?? > See the -S or --sparse flag > I don't think so (have to check when I get home), but wouldn't that cause problems regardless of the target directory? Remember, I _was_ able to copy all the files to

Re: [CentOS] Problem copying files to flash drive

2008-08-18 Thread NiftyClusters Mitch
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:41 PM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had an interesting experience this weekend backing up some flash > drives to another flash drive on my CentOS 5.2 home desktop. > > My son had two 256MB flash drives and one 1GB flash drive that he > wanted backed up onto his newe

[CentOS] Problem copying files to flash drive

2008-08-18 Thread MHR
I had an interesting experience this weekend backing up some flash drives to another flash drive on my CentOS 5.2 home desktop. My son had two 256MB flash drives and one 1GB flash drive that he wanted backed up onto his newer 2GB flash drive. I used rsync to copy the two smaller ones to the big o