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MkFly

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From: Mars

Registered: 2009-12-10

Posts: 141

Trouble with rewritefs and dotfiles

I'm trying to use Sloonz' rewritefs [github] to redirect dotfiles in $HOME to $HOME/.config

I used the example config given:

m#^(?!\.)# .
m#^\.(cache|config|local)# .
m#^\.# .config/

In the redirected filesystem, there appear to only be 3 dotfiles (dotdirs?) remaining, as expected (.cache/.config/.local), but where all of my old dotfiles were I see this (snipped):

ls: cannot access .ssh: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access .subversion: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access .themes: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access .thumbnails: No such file or directory

A full-on ls -alh gives me:

d?????????  ? ?     ?        ?            ? .ssh
d?????????  ? ?     ?        ?            ? .subversion
d?????????  ? ?     ?        ?            ? .themes
d?????????  ? ?     ?        ?            ? .thumbnails

Any idea what's going on here?

Last edited by MkFly (2011-02-12 19:16:04)