copying or moving a file: name too long

[marcgenou]

Binary package hint: nautilus

I found this behavior in nautilus package but it seems to come from cp and mv commands

When I try to copy or move a file with a long name (from a ntfs partition) it shows the following error (terminal or nautilus):

cp: no se puede crear el fichero regular «/home/XXX/Música/Yoko Kanno/ハチミツとクローバー　オリジナル·サウンドトラック/菅野よう子-「ハチミツとクローバー」オリジナル・サウンドトラック-14-魔法のコトバ（ｉｎｓｔｒｕｍｅｎｔａｌ　ｖｅｒｓｉｏｎ～Ｄｏｎ’ｔ　ｗｏｒｒｙ　ａｂｏｕｔ　ｔｈｅ　ｃａｎｄｙ）.mp3»: Nombre de archivo demasiado largo
cp: no se puede crear el fichero regular «/home/XXX/Música/Yoko Kanno/Turn A the concert/菅野よう子-ターンＡ　ｔｈｅ　ｃｏｎｃｅｒｔ-01-Ｗｈｉｔｅ　Ｆａｌｃｏｎメドレー；Ｇｉｒｌｓ　ｒｕｌｅ｜おんどりのように｜Ｍｏｏｎ｜Ｄｒｕｍ　Ｈｅａｄ｜Ｃｒｉｃｋｅｔ｜地よりはずめと.mp3»: Nombre de archivo demasiado largo

In english: file name too long
Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
Release: 10.04
Nautilus 2.30
All packages updated

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: nautilus 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Apr 11 12:20:26 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=es_ES.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

the error is coming from cp, reassigning to coreutils for now.

[Richard Lamont (richard-lamont)]

I'm getting this too, with both nautilus and cp, when copying long filenames from an ext3 backup disc.

Description: Ubuntu Lucid (as released 29/04/2010, alternate i386 desktop install CD)
Release: 10.04
coreutils: 7.4-2ubuntu2

[dee (boardwize)]

I'm also getting this , when copying files from an old Ubuntu ext4 partition to my new Lucid ext4 partition using Nautilus:

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

@all: what filesystem type are you copying to?

@Richard: did it work before Lucid, from the same source and target filesystems?

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

On most filesystems, a filename cannot be greater than 255 bytes. Unicode filenames... I am not sure. Researching.

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

hum. bits/stdio_lim.h states FILENAME_MAX == 4096. So this has to be a limitation imposed over the FS.

[Eric van der Vlist (vdv)]

I have the same issue when I try to copy files from an old ext3 partition on an ext4 partition with rsync (under Ubuntu 10.10).

The filenames are under the 255 characters limit (one of them for instance is 252 characters long) and do not contain non ASCII characters.

[Eric van der Vlist (vdv)]

In my case, this is due to the fact that I am using an encrypted home directory and this is documented as bug #344878 (the same copy works fine when done on a regular partition).

If this the case for the other people reporting this issue, this should be marked as a duplicate of bug #344878!

[Νίκος Αλεξανδρής (nikos.alexandris)]

"File name too long" error while trying to copy a long-named .pdf file into an ecrypted directory. This is still an issue (?), right?

[Veikko Mäkelä (veikk0.ma)]

I also get this error when copying a file with a long name. The file in question resides on a LUKS-encrypted EXT4 partition an external hard disk. I'm trying to copy it over to my encrypted home directory (EXT4 with LUKS & LVM).

It seems to me that this is a duplicate of bug #344878, so I'm marking it as such.