yes I know it's a flash drive, thats why I asked those questions, they all apply to hard drives. On Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 5:36 PM Michael wrote: > 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~(-: > --------------------------------------------------- > 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