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Hi,
So I have this partition that used to be my windows partition. I removed windows from it but still have a bunch of documents in there that I'd like ...
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- 10-21-2010 #1Just Joined!
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rsync --times won't update times
Hi,
So I have this partition that used to be my windows partition. I removed windows from it but still have a bunch of documents in there that I'd like to keep. The owner of that partition is root and the group is plugdev. myusername is part of that group.
I use rsync from another computer to sync these documents that I want to keep. rsync won't be able to change the time attribute of the synced folders because of some permission missing (so does it say).
With the files, it doesn't say anything, but the files created have today's date.
The rsync line that I use is:
rsync --verbose --progress --stats --compress --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh \
--recursive --times --delete \
--exclude "Thumbs.db" --exclude "desktop.ini" --exclude ".*" \
Music/. myusername@192.168.1.40:~/Music
Any clue what's happening?
Thanks!Last edited by dnacombo; 10-21-2010 at 03:32 AM.
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Ok, so as a quick apology, I started thinking of this in terms of permissions so entitled the thread chown won't work, but realized that it was more an issue with rsync itself...
Anyways, I'm stuck! Please let me know!
Thanks!
- 10-21-2010 #3Linux Guru
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Is the source folder on an NTFS or FAT partition?
Sometimes, real fast is almost as good as real time.
Just remember, Semper Gumbi - always be flexible!
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Yes!
NTFS, I believe...
- 10-21-2010 #5Linux Guru
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That's probably your problem. How are you mounting it, with CIFS, or the older SMB client?
Sometimes, real fast is almost as good as real time.
Just remember, Semper Gumbi - always be flexible!
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Oops, there I'm afraid I cannot follow you... I don't know...
Ubuntu installed this partition when I installed it for double booting...
Should I try reformatting the partition in ext3 or 4 or sth else? What's the difference anyway?
Thanks a lot!
- 10-21-2010 #7Linux Guru
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can you post exact error message? it will be easier to figure out if you do
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Well, there is no error message for files. Just that it does not change the date of the transferred files as it should.
And for the folders, it says: failed to set time on folder /home/Music/ operation not permitted (1)
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Originally Posted by dnacombo 
One of the differences is huge....Windows does not set file permissions the same way Linux does. Originally Posted by dnacombo
See this link for an in depth look at that difference.
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Alright, thanks.
So should I reformat that partition in some more "linux compatible" way?
What should I do? ext3, ext4, something else? what does it mean?
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