Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Ken Schneider <suse-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 14:05 -0600, david rankin wrote:
> Mates,
> 
>     I manage my own server with 10 clients. The 'not so intelligent' folks I 
> work with have saved file names that cannot be backed up with growisofs, 
> etc.., because the file names are too long and violate the Joliet and 
> Rock-Ridge conventions. This usually happens when they save web pages and 
> the html title gets used as the filename. I need a way to search the sever 
> and identify the files that are too long so I can change them without having 
> to search manually.
> 
>     Does anybody know of a tool that will do this?
> 
>     I have used "growisofs -dry-run ..." to find them one by one, but this 
> is quite cumbersome.
> 
It's basically called an email informing them that any files saved in
that manner cannot be backed up due to the limitations of the backup
software and will not be available for restore should they get
deleted/corrupted. This will force them to start using names that are
more acceptable. Teach them the correct way to name files rather than
trying to baby sit the way they do things now by changing the file names
for them. They are after all grownups are they not?

-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998