it isn't a flash drive. it is an external hard drive. On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 8:34 PM Bob Elzer wrote: > I think the real question might be how do you remove the drive from the > system. > > you have had a lot of problems with flash drives doing the same thing and > we always thought it was the flash going bad, so we recommended a external > hard drive. > > Questions would be are you unmounting before you remove it. > > where do you keep it and how do you treat it. > > do you keep it you glove compartment and go off roading everyday? > > my guess would be you are not unmounting it correctly. if you yank it out > before unmounting it, you could be interrupting some write operations. > which could corrupt something. > > was this a new drive or a refurbished drive, or maybe an old used drive? > > I would only recommend using a new drive to store backups on. > > > > On Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 3:04 PM Matt Graham wrote: > >> On 2018-09-26 14:41, Michael wrote: >> >> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 5:27 PM Matt Graham >> >> wrote: >> >>>> On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 4:20 PM Michael wrote: >> >>> bmike1@MikesBeast ~ $ rsync -aWuq --delete-before >> >>> /home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/"Seagate Expansion Drive" >> >>> rsync: mkdir "/media/bmike1/Seagate Expansion Drive" failed: >> >>> Permission denied (13) >> >> Post the output of "mount | grep bmike1" and "ls -l >> >> /media/bmike1" and "dmesg | tail". >> >> > /dev/sdc1 on /media/bmike1/Seagate Expansion Drive1 type fuseblk >> > bmike1@MikesBeast ~ $ ls -l /media/bmike1 >> > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 25 19:16 Seagate Expansion Drive >> > drwxrwxrwx 1 bmike1 bmike1 4096 Sep 25 19:57 Seagate Expansion Drive1 >> >> Have a good look at the ls -l output and the output from mount. This >> is a problem people run into with automounters and sometimes mounting by >> device identifiers. I had an older removable drive that would sometimes >> show up with a /dev/disk/by-id/ unique string that ended in >> "1870-0:0-part1" and sometimes "187-0:0-part1", which might confuse an >> automounter in a very similar way. >> >> Or you have multiple disks with identical volume labels. That's always >> a recipe for disaster, kind of like putting a moose in a blender. >> >> -- >> Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress >> There is no Darkness in Eternity >> But only Light too dim for us to see. >> --------------------------------------------------- >> 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~(-: