[Wine] rsyncing Wine fails

[Roy Butler]

David Shaw wrote:
> Dan Kegel wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:33 PM, David Shaw <dj.shaw at btconnect.com> 
>> wrote:
>>  
>>>  it chokes when it gets to the .wine folder - I/O error on every 
>>> single file
>>> and folder within .wine - trying a simple
>>>
>>>  cp -r /home/david/ /media/Portable/backup/
>>>
>>>  has the same effect.  This is repeatable and only .wine is affected 
>>> - which
>>> is why I wonder if it could be something about the way Wine is set up.
>>>     
>>
>> Not terribly likely...
>> What filesystem is your backup volume?
>> Does it allow filenames that start with . ?
>> i.e. does
>>    touch /media/Portable/backup/.foobar
>> succeed?
> 
> It's formatted to ext3 and does support .file filenames.  I didn't 
> really expect it to be Wine's fault - it's just the fact that it's only 
> happening when rsync gets to .wine that planted the seeds of doubt - I 
> just wanted to make certain before I started poking into my filesystems.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> David
> //
> 
> 

Testing "cp -r /home/david/.wine/ /var/tmp" would eliminate a lot of the 
variables.  Curious - does wine still work for you w/o issue on this system?


Roy