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Re: rsync: rename .file.JVPk8f -> file: Device or resource busy (16)


On Apr 15 11:19, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 15 10:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Apr 15 07:14, Fr?d?ric Bron wrote:
> > > I have converted a USB hard drive from fat32 to ntfs because git now
> > > does not work on fat32 drives and git is essential to my work.
> > > I also use this disk to backup my local hard drive with rsync.
> > > When it was fat32, everything was fine but now that it is ntfs, I get
> > > the following error message many times during the rsync process:
> > > 
> > > $ rsync --modify-window=1 --recursive --links --executability --times
> > > --quiet --delete /cygdrive/d/Documents /mnt/g/Sauvegarde/
> > > 
> > > rsync: rename "/mnt/g/Sauvegarde/Documents/Fred/Bal/1.7/Bal/gcc-release/bin/.configure.exe.JVPk8f"
> > > -> "Documents/Fred/Bal/1.7/Bal/gcc-release/bin/configure.exe": Device
> > > or resource busy (16)
> > > 
> > > when rsync ends, .configure.exe.?????? still exists and configure.exe
> > > does not exist or both do not exist
> > > 
> > > The disk is mounted like this (/etc/fstab):
> > > f:/ /mnt/f ntfs noacl,nouser,binary
> > > 
> > > What does this error message mean?
> > 
> > I have no idea what that means in this scenario.  I'm using NTFS
> > exclusively, but I don't use USB sticks, and I never encountered such
> > an error, unless the file was locked.
> 
> Do you run a anti-virus/anti-malware program which might interfere here?

I just tried the same on W7 under UAC.  First I rsynced an older
checkout of the Cygwin CVS repository onto the NTFS formatted USB stick,
then I updated the CVS checkout, then I rsynced it again.  Worked fine.


Corinna

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