file name changed when copying

[boullist]

Hi all,
I am using GNU/Linux with kernel 2.4.29.
When I copying a file using the following command:

cp /root/speakfb-7.6a.zip /mnt/usb

where /mnt/usb is the dir at which I mount my usb stick (mass storage),
I get a same file named 'speakfb-.6a' in the usb stick.
Why is the file name changed?
I have remount the usb stick and tryed it a lot of times, but get the same
result.
Any ideas?
Thanks!

[Freston]

Any ideas?
Thanks!

Not the faintest :S

What happens if you do this?

cp /root/speakfb-7.6a.zip /mnt/usb/speakfb-7.6a.zip

And is the problem specific for this file, or do (almost) all filenames change? What happens if you copy the file to another directory, /home/$USERNAME for example? And if you cp the file from that directory to the usb?

[bigtomrodney]

Hi all,
I am using GNU/Linux with kernel 2.4.29.
When I copying a file using the following command:

cp /root/speakfb-7.6a.zip /mnt/usb

where /mnt/usb is the dir at which I mount my usb stick (mass storage),
I get a same file named 'speakfb-.6a' in the usb stick.
Why is the file name changed?
I have remount the usb stick and tryed it a lot of times, but get the same
result.
Any ideas?
Thanks!

Can you run the following against the USB stick after you copy the file

ls -l spea*
file spea*

Post the result back here.

[boullist]

The result of 'ls -l spea*' is as follows.

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 705862 2007-06-12 07:20 speakfb-.6a

And the result of 'file spea*' is as follows.

speakfb-.6a: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract

And note that the name of some of other files also be changed when copying to the usb stick (flash memory), while some are not. But the 'cp' command works well with the native disks and the usb mobile disks (hard drive).
I am very curious about the reason and want to fix the problem.