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

On Friday 31 August 2007 14:08, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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...

I'm not sure about the OP, but I did this....

...plug in USB drive.

In Konq window, rope two files.
Right-click, select Compress > Compress As > filename.zip

Failed.

If I select Compress > Add To Archive and select my home folder as the
destination location, all is well.

It just doesn't appear to like compressing back to the USB drive. Or at least
it doesn't know where to put the resulting file(s).

Cheers,

Hmm...I could use a nice hefeweizen right now!


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