[CentOS] Re: Reformatting a USB drive
Scott Silva
ssilva at sgvwater.com
Thu May 24 23:25:35 UTC 2007
Todd Cary spake the following on 5/24/2007 4:11 PM:
> Jim -
>
> Thank you! That is exactly what I needed. I had to make one change
> though since I use rsync to copy the data to the USB drive: I could not
> use vfat. Instead, I used ext3. With vfat, I got errors when it tried
> to do a chmod (expected).
>
> I do have another fs question though. A couple of weeks ago I noticed
> that the USB icon was not on my desktop when I turned the drive on. Not
> knowing any better, I ran my rsync with the following:
>
> /usr/bin/rsync -av --exclude=".*" -e ssh /home/ /media/usbdisk/
>
> And it went ahead and did it's thing *but* the drive was
> inoperable...dead. Where did the data go?
>
> And I noticed with the new drive, if I turn it off, rsync puts the data
> somewhere with
>
> /usr/bin/rsync -av --exclude=".*" -e ssh /home/ /media/usbdisk1/
>
> I need a FS 101 course!!
You don't need the -e ssh command if you are copying locally. Just use
/usr/bin/rsync -av /home/ /media/usbdisk1/ --exclude=".*"
As for your copy with an unmounted drive, the copy should have gone to
/media/usbdisk . Try a ls /media/usbdisk
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