Invalid file name error while copying some packages to USB disk.

rsamurti · 2012-09-10 18:49:45

Hi

I am trying to create my custom local repository by copying all the packages from /var/cache/pacman/pkg to /run/media/anand/SJCE_EEE/custompkgs on my USB storage device. But I get the following errors for some packages:

cp: cannot create regular file ‘/run/media/anand/SJCE_EEE/custompkgs/graphite-1:1.0.3-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz’: Invalid argument
cp: cannot create regular file ‘/run/media/anand/SJCE_EEE/custompkgs/hsqldb-java-1:1.8.0.10-2-any.pkg.tar.xz’: Invalid argument
cp: cannot create regular file ‘/run/media/anand/SJCE_EEE/custompkgs/libmythes-1:1.2.3-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz’: Invalid argument
cp: cannot create regular file ‘/run/media/anand/SJCE_EEE/custompkgs/libshout-1:2.3.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz’: Invalid argument
cp: cannot create regular file ‘/run/media/anand/SJCE_EEE/custompkgs/phonon-1:4.6.0-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz’: Invalid argument
cp: cannot create regular file ‘/run/media/anand/SJCE_EEE/custompkgs/rasqal-1:0.9.29-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz’: Invalid argument
cp: cannot create regular file ‘/run/media/anand/SJCE_EEE/custompkgs/redland-1:1.0.15-3-i686.pkg.tar.xz’: Invalid argument
cp: cannot create regular file ‘/run/media/anand/SJCE_EEE/custompkgs/redland-storage-virtuoso-1:1.0.15-3-i686.pkg.tar.xz’: Invalid argument
cp: cannot create regular file ‘/run/media/anand/SJCE_EEE/custompkgs/vi-1:050325-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz’: Invalid argument
cp: cannot create regular file ‘/run/media/anand/SJCE_EEE/custompkgs/xf86-video-ati-1:6.14.6-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz’: Invalid argument

But other packages copy properly to the USB storage device. If I remove : from the file names of packages mentioned above they copy properly. Is this because of the FAT32 file system on my USB disk?

The above mentioned packages copy properly to my home directory which is ext4 file system.

Any suggestions to correct this?

Thanks in advance.

Anand

angelfalls · 2012-09-10 18:52:37

why don't you mount your usb in /mnt or /media and copy normally?

rsamurti · 2012-09-10 19:00:11

I am running XFCE and using Thunar while copying. When I connect my USB disk it mounts in /run/media/anand.

Anand

WorMzy · 2012-09-10 19:19:21

What is the filesystem of the USB device?

rsamurti · 2012-09-10 19:24:22

It is fat32.

Anand

WorMzy · 2012-09-10 19:25:31

Fat32 doesn't support colons (:).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allo … tory_table

bernarcher · 2012-09-11 02:51:25

rsamurti, you asked the moderators to do this:

Please remove : from package file names due to the problems reported in this post. Such packages cannot be copied to FAT32 file systems.

This is up to you. Just "Edit" the post by yourself and mark this section deleted. (See the BBCode help for this.)
And please leave an according comment stating something like the quote above there. It would be valuable information.

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#1 2012-09-10 18:49:45

Invalid file name error while copying some packages to USB disk.

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