okay.... upon the first run i suppose it showed me all of the files it was copying and then it said that 'some files or attrs were not transfered.' so I ran it again and what do you know 4 more files were copied... then again and 2 copied.... now it just says that no files or attrs were transfered. so take this as a warning all you rsyncers out there, you need to run it multiple times. So which files are not transfering? Here is what is on the screen:

  sudo rsync -va <source> <destination>
  ending incremental file list
  rsync: readlink_stat("/home/bmike1/.gvfs') failed: Permision denied (13)
  <list of files transfering>

  sent x bytes received y bytes  z bytes/sec
  total size is a bytesw  speedup is b bytes
  rsync error: some files/attrs were not transfered (see previous errors)  (code 25) at
    main.c(1070)
  [sender=3.0.8]
 
So which files are not transferring? The only thing I can think from the information given is:
 
   readlink_stat("/home/bmike1/.gvfs
 
Then I added the --checksum in the hopes that would tell me more information and after a long wait I suppose another file transfered (bmike1/.cache/ubuntuone/log/syncdaemon.log). And so now I run it again.... and it looks as if the same file transferred.

So I must ask.... am I correct in my assesment of what isn't transferring?


On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
thanks ben. As it copies it runs out of room in the destination. It seems my home directory is larger than 13gig but the partition is only 10 gig.. It seems I have to repartition my drive again. And I thought this was going to be difficult. Actually I didn't think I had enough free space to repartition.


On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Ben Browning <benb@bensbrowning.com> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
well now I need to work on the other computer a little. I wanted to move the print server's /home to it's own partition but the partition i want to use is too small. So, my question is what do I need to copy? /home/<user>/documents i know I need but what else? I guess that is it. If there is space I  suppose Downloads too. And to get it to see /dev/sda3 as the new location for documents I would 'export /home/<user>/documents=/mnt/sda3/documents. Copying the documemts would be: 'rsync -va --checksum /mnt/home/documents /mnt/sda3. does this sound right?

rsync -va  /mnt/home/ /mnt/sda3/

Skip checksum, it will go faster and check date and size and not checksum every file. Simply run it again when it's done and it should sync nothing, showing you it's all there.

On your first box, the fix is:

1) mount new partition to, say, /mnt/new/
2) rsync -va   /mnt/home/bmike1 /mnt/new/ 
3) note the trailing slash and no trailing slash in 2). This should result in /mnt/new/bmike1
4) edit /etc/fstab to put the device on /mnt/new on /home
5) mv /home /home.bk
6) mkdir /home
7) mount -a
8) confirm /home/bmike1 exists and is writable by bmike1
9) reboot, everything should work
10) rm -rf /home.bk when you are sure everything is functional.

~Ben


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