rsync problem

[Matt Graham]

> On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 4:20 PM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> bmike1 at MikesBeast ~ $ rsync -aWuq --delete-before 
>> /home/bmike1/Documents
>> /media/bmike1/"Seagate Expansion Drive"
>> rsync: mkdir "/media/bmike1/Seagate Expansion Drive" failed: 
>> Permission denied (13)
>> I never had this problem before. What does it mean?
On 2018-09-25 16:22, Anthony Radzykewycz wrote:
> Maybe the owner of the drive is root 

More explicitly, the root directory of the removable device mounted on 
/media/bmike1 could be owned by root and not writable by group/other.  
This is why if you have a removable medium that's not FAT, you usually 
have several subdirectories in that device's root dir that can be 
chowned to whoever.  If you're using this device to back up more than 
one machine, you may be running into UIDs being different on different 
machines.  Post the output of "mount | grep bmike1" and "ls -l 
/media/bmike1" and "dmesg | tail".

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