[GRASS5] Re: mapset invalid after copy

[Paulick Consult]

Hello Glynn and Stephan, 

thank you very much for your help! The copy showed the following filenames: 

/PERMANENT/DEFAULT_WIND
/PERMANENT/myname
/PERMANENT/PROJ_INFO
/PERMANENT/PROJ_UNITS
/PERMANENT/wind 

After renaming to capital letters it worked as usual. Is there a 
understandable reason why these two files and only those two changed to 
minor letters? 

Adittionally, it would be great if the grass error message would point out 
what did lead to the failure. 

 

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With kindest regards 

Stefan Paulick 


http://www.urbeli.com
mailto://stefan.paulick@urbeli.com
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Stephan Holl schrieb: 

> Hello Glynn,  
> 
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:46:57 +0100 Glynn Clements
> <glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote: 
> 
>> 
>> Paulick Consult wrote: 
>> 
>> > I had to exchange a harddisk, so I moved the GRASS-locations from a
>> > reiserfs to a fat32 drive. When restoring the system, I receive
>> > "Warning: this is not a valid mapset" without any further hint. 
>> > 
>> > GRASS was build out of cvs and the permissions on files and
>> > directories are set identical. Any idea what I may have messed up?  
>> 
>> Copying to a FAT filesystem and back won't retain ownership or
>> permissions, and may result in the case of filenames being changed. 
>> 
>> I don't know where that error originates, but from its wording I
>> suspect that the most likely cause is that one or more files or
>> directories have had their case changed.
> 
> I can confirm this. While copying back from a Fat-formated USB-stick,
> the PROJ_INFO, DEFAULT_WIND  and WIND-Files were lower case. Change
> them to upper-case again and everything works again. 
> 
> Best
> 	Stephan 
> 
> 
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