Re: [Gnumed-devel] gnumed.conf gets trashed and deleted by something.

[richard terry]

On Tuesday 03 September 2002 9:23 am, you wrote:
> >   File "/home/richard/gnumed/gnumed/client/python-common/gmCfg.py", line
> > 261, in store os.rename(fname, self.cfgName)
> > OSError: [Errno 18] Invalid cross-device link
>
> Any chance your /usr/tmp and /home/richard/ sit on two
> different devices (such as hda1 and hda2) ?
Only have one large HDD with a windows and linux partitions:

My partitioning is as follows I think:


>address@hidden richard]$ df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5             13163848   2877584   9617564  24% /
none                    256908         0    256908   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda7             14828920   4100180  10728740  28% /home
/dev/hda1             10231392   2412064   7819328  24% /mnt/windows
//medical-server/office
                      19417600  11129856   8287744  58% /mnt/office
address@hidden richard]$


> DOS didn't like that when renaming. Will change from
> os.rename() to shutils.move() which should be safe.
>
> Karsten