I have a USB stick (thumbnail size) for the car, I rip CD's and copy them over. Every now and then, the copy will fail with error messages that appear to be related to the character sets and such: cp: cannot create directory ‘Pet Shop Boys - Discography: The Complete Singles Collection’: Invalid argument rsync: mkstemp "/var/run/media/per/BBC2-DF04/.06 - What Have I Done To Deserve This?.mp3.7myEiY" failed: Invalid argument (22) rsync: mkstemp "/var/run/media/per/BBC2-DF04/.18 - Was It Worth It?.mp3.Hbf1LV" failed: Invalid argument (22) cp: cannot create regular file ‘10 - Fughetta "In dich hab ich gehoffet, Herr".mp3’: Invalid argument Apparently '?', ':' and '"' are all causing a problem. I've googled it some and read a few pages about how to mount the usb stick with the right codepage and charset .... it's been so long since I've had to dabble with codepages and charsets .... Here is what I would like to do - pop in a CD, crank up k3b, rip the contents into a folder <name-of-cd>, copy that folder to the usb stick (already mounted). On my laptop, the USB is typically mounted like this: /dev/sdb1 on /var/run/media/per/BBC2-DF04 type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0022,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro) All suggestions and insight most welcome. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (0.8°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org