rsync failing to see drive path

Mike Cappella mike@cappella.us
Thu Sep 5 07:33:00 GMT 2013


> On 9/4/2013 3:41 PM, Mike Cappella wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I'm trying to use rsync on a USB (fat) drive, but it fails on the
>> cygdrive path:
>>
>> $ rsync --dry-run --delete -uvxhir "/cydrive/m/Music Converted"
>> /cygdrive/G/ sending incremental file list rsync: change_dir
>> "/cydrive/m" failed: No such file or directory (2)
>>
>> and I'm not sure why as it does indeed exist:
>>
>> $ ls -l /cygdrive/m/Music\ Converted total 12532 -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 MrC
>> ???????? 12568746 Sep  4 11:42 Database.mpl drwxr-xr-x+ 1 MrC
>> ????????        0 Sep  4 11:41 Music drwxr-xr-x+ 1 MrC ????????
>> 0 Sep  4 11:42 Playlists
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1 zion 1.7.25(0.270/5/3) 2013-08-31 20:37
>> x86_64 Cygwin
>
>
> I see "cygdrive" misspelled as "cydrive" in a couple places. What happens
> when that's corrected?
>
> ..mark

Oh, dear god. It's official - I'm now old.

(I misspelled this in an alias, which is one I use elsewhere just fine, 
because it is spelled correctly elsewhere.)

Thanks.  Have a nice day.

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