From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 29 14:46:32 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF9BF16A41C for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:46:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drew@mykitchentable.net) Received: from relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.182.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8496D43D48 for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:46:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drew@mykitchentable.net) Received: from filter03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.70]) by relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B3603705D3; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:46:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.182.165]) by filter03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.70]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11150-02-41; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:46:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (67-137-46-191.dsl2.elk.ca.frontiernet.net [67.137.46.191]) by relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A99AB3705C5; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:46:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [165.107.42.217] (unknown [165.107.42.217]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 350783BF35E; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 07:46:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42C2B3F7.6010603@mykitchentable.net> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 07:45:11 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" References: <42C20ADE.8080608@mykitchentable.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20040701 (2.0) at filter03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net Cc: freebsd@meijome.net, FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: How Can I Clean Up Files That Don't Exist? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:46:32 -0000 On 6/28/2005 10:16 PM Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > On Jun 28, 2005, at 9:35 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: > >> It looks, i'm not sure, like they're not vaild file names. > > > They appear like valid filenames to me (and like the names you get > with courier for messages) > > The issue is that tar is getting a file list and then the user is > downloading (POP) or deleting or changing the status of a message > (like reading it -- the filename itself encodes the read, deleted, > etc status of a message) before tar actually archives it. Or > something like that. The file system is changing out from underneath > the OP. > > make a snapshot first if this is an issue. > > Chad Thank you and Norberto for your replies. Your explanations make sense for most cases but I don't think it applies to mine. This is a small home system and the only mail users are myself and my wife. Thus I had the luxury of stopping courier-imap and trying tar again. Same errors. Also, I don't think I can make a snapshot since I am on version 4.11. Ironically, I'm trying to get good backups so I can blow away my system and install version 5.4. :) Any other ideas? Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com