On 05/11/2018 02:47 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Le 11/05/2018 à 19:54, Richard Owlett a écrit :I posted after having purged my system of the offending ???? and was writing from memory.I believe there were two source directories/home/richard/.local/share/Trash/expunged/73080846/grub2 problem-2018-02-13and /root/.local/share/Trash/expunged/73080846/grub2 problem-2018-02-13 or/home/root/.local/share/Trash/expunged/73080846/grub2 problem-2018-02-13Probably /root/... /home/root usually does not exist.
Looked further just now Perhaps should have been: /home/root/...
The crud filled result was a "THING/glob/???" at: /media/richard/MISC backups/dev_sda14/home/richard/.local/share /Trash/expunged/73080846/grub2 problem-2018-02-13That is the result of the copy from /home/richard/. What makes you think that the directory tree in /root was involved ?
Grasping at straws ???? ;/
What I was trying to document was that cp -ax / /media/richard/MISC-backups/dev_sda14/root should be have been expected to run to _intended result_. In reality, there was a *PERVERSE* permutation of initial conditions.I do not understand what you mean.
Makes two of us
IIUC, the error was caused by a very long pathname in the source path which exceeded the maximum length in the target path. After you removed the overlong directory chain, cp proceeded without error as expected.Or did I miss something ?
Possibly. Just trying to explain things "After the Fact" [rofl]