Re: [opensuse] compressing files(Need Raid!)

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The Friday 2007-08-31 at 22:52 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

On Aug 31 2007 22:16, Carlos E. R. wrote:

Usually, the (actual) media is mounted as /media/myusbdrive or something, so
why would zip write to /media?

If the gui program you use understands that you are requesting to compress
the whole /media/myusbdrive it will try to do so to the parent dir, which
is, of course, /media, and it will fail.

That would be a bit odd since if you zipped up "myusbdrive", you would
have a (most likely) unwanted extra directory component in the archive.

I haven't tried konq., but compressing /media/myusbdrive with mc would
create the file /media/myusbdrive.zip, residing in /media. This would fail
for a normal user with "permission denied".

I'm just trying to guess what the OP did, though...

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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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