filenames containing ::, rsync and "file has vanished", ext2fsd being used

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Thu Jul 3 20:22:00 GMT 2008


reikred@gmail.com wrote:
> Reini Urban wrote:
> r than cygwin.
>>
>> Try mounting those two as managed.
>>
>> mount -f -s -b -o managed "e:/usr" /e/usr
>> mount -f -s -b -o managed "f:/usr" /f/usr
>>
> 
> Thanks, I saw this suggestion a bit late.
> It did not seem to make a difference.

This only works with files as they are created.  It won't work on
existing files.  It also munges the names so you won't be able to
read them as easily with non-Cygwin tools.  See
<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.case-sensitive>
or the Users Guide for more details.


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