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Author: Michael Havens
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: rsync
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 <
>>> <mailto:brian@snaptek.com>> 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
>>>         < <mailto:jrefl5@gmail.com>
>>>         <mailto:jrefl5@gmail.com <mailto:jrefl5@gmail.com>>> 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.

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