From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 5 21:35:39 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7355E1065672 for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2011 21:35:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cpuburner@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B2C68FC0C for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2011 21:35:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by faar19 with SMTP id r19so5692747faa.13 for ; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:35:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; bh=jn+QCLebZdhlek2jEWZmR7Of1AKcnF90yOtXsnPTVow=; b=SrPI459PjvXElzItHHQX6Zj6V+Z+frw6N4Ktc8bv0QHL5LQY8l1Qk7G9FECrfgOSte 1C+LRduMo/WOCXOtwyobFRwLK8OTGuiEYX8hCDj92VrjJ6jHSHNEFMVqDfQbhVT8vdPz eRgx2ObU7vOvC6Lsq0ezSsVBZ2TkR5/Z+S4n0= Received: by 10.223.14.3 with SMTP id e3mr35173516faa.25.1320528938117; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:35:38 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.96.200 with HTTP; Sat, 5 Nov 2011 14:35:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <44d3d6paww.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> References: <44d3d6paww.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> From: Chris Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 17:35:17 -0400 Message-ID: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:35:39 -0000 The tar one-liner is similar what I used to use on Gentoo and Arch linux, so I thought it strange that it isn't working here. I'm still having problems though, since the command returns " Can't create '$FILENAME' " for all files found. I quick tested by telling the tar command to copy to /tmp instead, and it worked fine. Copying a few test files created with ee transfer to /mnt/usb fine as well. I'm thinking there may be some characters (or even name length) that are causing the problem. Are there restrictions on filename characters/length on drives mounted with msdosfs? The mount entry for the drive is: /dev/da0s1 on /mnt/usb (msdosfs, local) #with -o longnames