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".
Todd
Jim Perrin wrote:
On 5/24/07, Todd Cary <todd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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).
Right, fat filesystems have no real concept of permissions.
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?
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. Provides an interesting 'low-tech' way to hide files
occasionally. they're not WELL hidden, but hey...
I need a FS 101 course!!
Will a 104 course work?
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/l-dw-linux-lpic1104-i.html
You might want to look at the LPI study material. About 50% is junk
you'll never use and will mostly likely forget within 15 minutes, but
some is the obscure fact material that will help save your geek ass
one day :-P
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