<div dir="auto">what about running the rsync command from root?<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">if you know the root password, you can sudo to root and run the rsync command and it should be able to accomplish any reads and writes</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 3:01 PM Matt Graham <<a href="mailto:mhgraham@crow202.org">mhgraham@crow202.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">>>>> /dev/sdc1 on /media/bmike1/Seagate Expansion Drive1 type fuseblk<br>
>>>> bmike1@MikesBeast ~ $ ls -l /media/bmike1<br>
>>>> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 25 19:16 Seagate Expansion <br>
>>>> Drive<br>
>>>> drwxrwxrwx 1 bmike1 bmike1 4096 Sep 25 19:57 Seagate Expansion <br>
>>>> Drive1<br>
>>> Have a good look at the ls -l output and the output from mount. <br>
>>> This<br>
>>> is a problem people run into with automounters and sometimes <br>
>>> mounting by<br>
>>> device identifiers.<br>
<br>
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 8:34 PM Bob Elzer <<a href="mailto:bob.elzer@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">bob.elzer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> my guess would be you are not unmounting it correctly. if you yank it<br>
>> out before unmounting it, you could be interrupting some write<br>
>> operations. which could corrupt something.<br>
>> Questions would be are you unmounting before you remove it.<br>
On 2018-09-27 01:07, Michael wrote:<br>
> yes<br>
<br>
The way the problem is showing up makes me think it's the automounter <br>
doing something dumb. 2 directories in /media/bmike1 , one named with <br>
the filesystem label of the disk, one named that label+"1" is a classic <br>
programmer solution to the problem of having two filesystems with the <br>
same label present at the same time. Something somewhere forgot to <br>
clean up the old mountpoint, the automounter thinks the device is still <br>
there, and your backup fails because the device is mounted to a <br>
mountpoint that's not what you expect.<br>
<br>
So: Go in to whatever's doing your automounting, gnome-mount or <br>
whatever, and umount all the removable media devices it thinks are <br>
mounted. Unplug the disk. After that, there should be no directories <br>
in /media/bmike1/ . If there are, rmdir them. Then plug the disk back <br>
in. If you're lucky, the automounter will then put the disk on the <br>
right mountpoint.<br>
<br>
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