On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 15:19 -0500, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > Is there something wrong with this command? > > [root@box9 simple]# scp -r bobg@box8:/home/bobg/ > /run/media/bobg/Simple/Box8BkU > > I would like to copy the contents [roughly 44G per du -h] of > /home/bobg/ on box8 to an external USB 500G hard drive. The problem > is that it appears to be trying to keep recopying the files until > the 500 gigs is reached. I let it run until the end yesterday and it > quit protesting it had run out of space. > > I thought I had made an error entering the command and started again > from scratch [after rm -fr] but it looks like it was doing the same > thing now and I stopped it. Watching the screen I can see it is > recopying the same files, du -h shows 228G on the external drive and > it was still going when I stopped it. The source drive shows 44G ... > > What am I doing wrong? > > Bob > > -- > http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD > > box7 > I would start on box9 and run: scp -r /home/bobg bobg@box8:/home/ -- ======================================================================= If Bill Gates is the Devil then Linus Torvalds must be the Messiah. -- Unknown source ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
