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On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 2:43 PM Andreas Kusalananda K=C3=A4h=C3=A4ri wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 02:35:14PM -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > > From: Dee Nixon > > Date: Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 11:31 AM > > Subject: mkdir error message -- what does this mean? > > To: Aryeh Friedman > > > > > > > > What does the following mean? > > > > > > dnixon@sft:/tmp % sudo mkdir > > /fsvc/clients/specMed/LIVE/master/h11a9fpp-mkknhbci-2hjvbpc > > mkdir: /fsvc/clients/specMed/LIVE/master/h11a9fpp-mkknhbci-2hjvbpc: Too > > many links > > dnixon@sft:/tmp % > > > > -- > > > > > > -- > > Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org > > > The error message usually says "Too many levels of symbolic links", so > I'm assuming that you have translated it. > > It means that when creating the directory, a symbolic link was traversed > that pointed back to itself, or in some other fasion created a loop. > > This can easily be recreated like this: > > $ ln -s link . > $ ls -l > total 1 > lrwxr-xr-x 1 myself wheel 4 Sep 30 20:38 link -> link > > Then: > > $ mkdir link/hello > mkdir: link/hello: Too many levels of symbolic links > > So, in your case, I would investigate whether any part of the target > pathname "/fsvc/clients/specMed/LIVE/master/h11a9fpp-mkknhbci-2hjvbpc" > is a symbolic link that points to somewhere where it shouldn't point. > > -- > Andreas (Kusalananda) K=C3=A4h=C3=A4ri > SciLifeLab, NBIS, ICM > Uppsala University, Sweden > > . --=20 Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org