On 02/06/2013 06:19 PM, "Germán A. Racca" wrote: > Hi people, > > I have recently bought an external hard drive of 1 Tb capacity (Samsung > M3). I made a backup of my home directory with the following command: > > $ cd /home > $ rsync -avh --delete --stats --exclude=*.vdi --exclude=*.iso german > /run/media/german/SAMSUNG/backup-skytux/ > > but it turns out that permissions on files/directories were not > preserved in the destination, and then I new that this was because of > the original NTFS format of the hd, so I formatted it to ext4 file > system using gparted. > > On one hand, now the contents of my external hd are: > > $ ll /run/media/german/SKYTUX/ > total 16 > drwx------. 2 root root 16384 Feb 6 15:51 lost+found > > On the other hand, gparted gives me this information: > > Size: 931.50 GiB > Used: 14.84 GiB (2%) > Unused: 916.66 GiB (98%) > > So, my questions are: > > 1) I can't create any folder in the hd because it is owned by the root > user, and as I showed above there is this lost+found directory that I > don't understand why it is there. Is this ok? Yes. > Should I be root to be > able to create/remove files/folder in my external hd?? No. Create a scratch dir on the hd (as root) and do chmod 1777 <mydir> This will create a directory that any user can write to. > 2) What is this 14.84 GB used in the hd? Is this used by the ext4 file > system? Yes. Inodes, reserved space, etc. Andrew. -- 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
