I don't know what happened..... I only have 1.1GB of room left. I am suspecting that /home isn't on the partition upon which I thought it was placed.... no.... $ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb1 23642608 21331796 1086992 96% / none 4 0 4 0% /sys/fs/cgroup udev 1975124 4 1975120 1% /dev tmpfs 404736 1512 403224 1% /run none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock none 2023672 65760 1957912 4% /run/shm none 102400 24 102376 1% /run/user /dev/sdb3 210643368 36649464 163270784 19% /home I thought maybe the trash needed to be empty but after I did so an refreshed only 4 bytes were freed... $ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb1 23642608 21331800 1086988 96% / none 4 0 4 0% /sys/fs/cgroup udev 1975124 4 1975120 1% /dev tmpfs 404736 1512 403224 1% /run none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock none 2023672 66436 1957236 4% /run/shm none 102400 28 102372 1% /run/user /dev/sdb3 210643368 36649544 163270704 19% /home Is there a .Trash folder hidden somewhere? It isn't in /! What should i do? On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > I just stuck the drive in and let it automount. I suppose I could sudo > rsync but why didn't I have to before the --delete-before was added? > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Brian Cluff wrote: > >> Did you mount the drive as a different user than bmike1? >> >> Brian Cluff >> >> On 09/25/2015 05:12 AM, Michael Havens wrote: >> >>> It didn't do this before. Why will it not create a directory? But wait! >>> The directory already exists. >>> >>> bmike1@c521 ~ $ rsync -aWq --progress --delete-before --compress-level=5 >>> /home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/"USB DISK"/ >>> rsync: mkdir "/media/bmike1/USB DISK" failed: Permission denied (13) >>> rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(674) [Receiver=3.1.0] >>> bmike1@c521 ~ $ sudo mkdir "/media/bmike1/USB DISK" >>> [sudo] password for bmike1: >>> bmike1@c521 ~ $ rsync -aWq --progress --delete-before --compress-level=5 >>> /home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/"USB DISK"/ >>> rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/media/bmike1/USB DISK/Documents" failed: >>> Permission denied (13) >>> *** Skipping any contents from this failed directory *** >>> rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) >>> (code 23) at main.c(1183) [sender=3.1.0] >>> bmike1@c521 ~ $ >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 2:33 AM, Brian Cluff >> > wrote: >>> >>> In rsync, incremental recursion, refers to memory saving technique >>> where it starts transferring files while only reading in a subset of >>> the list of files that will be transferred. >>> If you use --delete-before rsync will have to know the whole list of >>> files so it will know what to delete, so naturally incremental >>> recursion gets turned off because leaving it on conflicts with that >>> you have asked it to do. >>> >>> Brian Cluff >>> >>> On 09/24/2015 06:12 AM, Michael Havens wrote: >>> >>> Thanks for sharing with me about --delete-before. In my >>> subsequent >>> investigation into it's use I found the manpage says that using >>> that >>> option disables 'incremental recursion'. What is 'incremental >>> recurssion'? I assume that I will still be able to backup lower >>> level >>> directories. >>> >>> >>> Some options require rsync to know the full file >>> list, so >>> these >>> options disable the incremental recursion >>> mode. These >>> include: >>> --delete-before, --delete-after, >>> --prune-empty-dirs, >>> and >>> --delay-updates. Because of this, the default >>> delete >>> mode when >>> you specify --delete is now --delete-during >>> when both >>> ends of >>> the connection are at least 3.0.0 (use --del or >>> --delete-during >>> to request this improved deletion mode >>> explicitly). >>> See also >>> the --delete-delay option that is a better >>> choice >>> than using >>> --delete-after. >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:11 PM, James Crawford >>> >>> >> wrote: >>> >>> Mike, >>> you can have rsync do the deletes prior to copying >>> files over >>> --delete-before receiver deletes before >>> xfer, not >>> during >>> You can also delete the excluded files if you use some >>> form of >>> the exclude command, >>> --delete-excluded also delete excluded files >>> from >>> dest dirs >>> >>> James C. >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> >>> >> >>> > >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: