[CentOS] Re: Reformatting a USB drive

[Todd Cary]

Scott -

Whoops!  In the past, I was RSYNCing to a backup/standby server and 
forgot to modify the command.

Thank you.....

Todd

Scott Silva wrote:
> 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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