thanks Matt. I ignored the squirrel this time! disk not plugged in. there is a seagate expansion drive directory in /media. after further investigation it seems rsync backed the seagate expansion drive to /media and not to /media/Seagate\ Expansion\ Drive. Would you say rmdir and things should function normally? how should I do it? ' rmdir -r /media/Seagate\ Expansion\ Drive'? On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 6:38 PM Matt Graham wrote: > >>> mount > >>> /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 > > On 2018-09-27 15:06, Bob Elzer wrote: > > what about running the rsync command [as] root? > > Bob, the problem as shown in the parts of the message above marked with > >>> is that the automounter put the disk /dev/sdc1 on > "/media/bmike1/Seagate Expansion Drive1" instead of > "/media/bmike1/Seagate Expansion Drive". The OP was expecting the disk > to be on the mountpoint without the 1 at the end. Running the rsync > command as root would *work*, but it wouldn't do anything useful, since > the OP wanted to rsync a bunch of stuff to that external disk. > > (Sometimes, I think people don't read the stuff I write... is it > horrible mail clients, spam filtering, short attention spans, > or--SQUIRREL! > > -- > 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 -- :-)~MIKE~(-: