Subject: "Argument list too long" reading from MSDOS (Camera) FS?
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Alec Muffett <alecm@crypticide.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/07/2005 00:29:30
Hi All,
I have a Canon IXUS 700 with an 1Gb Sandisk SD-Card. I inserted the
card into a PCMCIA adapter, and put *that* into a Toshiba Libretto
110ct running NetBSD 2.0.
After a little experimenting, I found that I could mount and read the
filesystem structure properly, by mounting the card as "msdos" with the
"-l" (force long filenames) feature, otherwise the cards seemed a
terrible mess.
Having done this I now find that I can see that the files are there,
but any attempt to copy them off / read them yields the very peculiar
error "Argument list too long".
This gets thrown out by rsync, cp, md5 ... basically anything that
tries to read the images, which are 1 to 5Mb in size, nothing enormous;
certain of the files are copied-but-corrupted, others (when copied to
local disk) end up as zero-sized files, although the source file is a
couple of megs in size.
Has anyone else encountered this behaviour? Is there a quick fix /
option I should prod?
Thanks!
- alec
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