Matt - Many thanks! Yes, that makes absolute sense once I cleared my mind of M$. Todd Matt Hyclak wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 08:54:29PM -0700, Todd Cary enlightened us: > >> Jim et al - >> >> << Very likely it created a directory named usbdisk in /media, and sync'd >> the files there. If you plug something in with a label of 'usbdisk', >> it'll get mounted there, and hide the existence of the files >> underneath. >> >> So, the question for me is how does Linux know if there is a USB drive >> so the info is transferred there or to create a "local directory" and >> put the data in it? I would have expected an error message, "Hey, >> dummy. The drive is not connected". >> >> > > Because there's nothing special about drives in Linux. They're all just > files/directories. /media has no special meaning to the kernel, only the > user, so the system will happily let you create folders wherever you want. > If the folder happens to be physically located on another drive, it will put > the files there. That's one of the beauties of Unix-like filesystems - it > all looks the same regardless of drives/partitions/etc. > > It's up to you to check that the drive is there before running rsync. > > Matt > > -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070525/d4169a86/attachment-0004.html>