Hi,
Which version of Mac OS X are you running? If you are on Mac OS 10.5.x
then I can only suggest that you try either formating the drive to HFS
+ or creating a disk image with an HFS+ file system.
If you are running Mac OS 10.4.x then ensure that that ACL support is
enabled on the drive. The following URL contains information on how to
check and enable ACL support : http://connect.homeunix.com/lbackup/access_control_lists
Finally, consider whether the ACL data is important. If it is not
important then, you could experiment with not preserving the ACL
information by removing the appropriate flags.
Also, I agree with the post from Veronica.
Hope this helps.
On 11/05/2009, at 1:54 AM, Michael Lachmann wrote:
I am trying to transfer files between two OSX machines using a FAT32
formatted flash drive. I am transferring a "big" directory (7G).
Basically I want to sync everyday my home and work computers for some
directories.
I tried many possible rsyncs (original supplied, fink 3.0.5/3.0.4
macports 3.0.5, rsync-2.6.3+hfsmode-1.2b2, 3.0.6+fileflags+crtimes)
What I would really like to happen is:
all additional HFS attributes of files are tranferred, and
when no or few changes occur, nothing or little should be copied or
transferred, so I can go home quickly.
I am currently using 3.0.6+fileflags+crtimes, with the following
command:
sudo rsync -aNHAXx --fileflags --force-change --modify-window=1 SRC
DST
I get errors of the type:
rsync: get_xattr_names:
llistxattr("masking/figures/._intro_err_2tissue_worst_best_add1.pdf",
1024)
failed: Operation not permitted (1)
These errors occur, I think, trying to access files that store xattr
on the FAT32 drive. They occur even in a trial run (-n). What is
interesting is that if I run rsync several times consecutively, I get
a different set of files that report these errors - each odd run one
set, and on the even run another.
In addition, I see files that are transferred every time - even when
no change happens. These seem to be directories and some of the
attributes files (._*)
I tried to use bbouncer to check what is copied correctly. For this
I did
sudo rsync -vaNHAXx --fileflags --force-change --modify-window=1
/Volumes/Src/ /Volumes/FAT32/DST
sudo rsync -vaNHAXx --fileflags --force-change --modify-window=1
/Volumes/FAT32/DST/ /Volumes/Dst/
and then compared the results with
sudo bbouncer verify /Volumes/Src /Volumes/Dst
Here are the results:
Verifying: basic-permissions ... FAIL (Critical)
Verifying: timestamps ... stat: ./some-file: stat: No such
file or directory
FAIL (Critical)
Verifying: symlinks ... ok (Critical)
Verifying: symlink-ownership ... FAIL
Verifying: hardlinks ... stat: link1: stat: No such file
or directory
stat: link2: stat: No such file or directory
stat: link3: stat: No such file or directory
FAIL (Important)
Verifying: resource-forks ... FAIL (Critical)
Verifying: finder-flags ... ok (Critical)
Verifying: finder-locks ... ok
Verifying: creation-date ... ok
Verifying: bsd-flags ... ok
Verifying: extended-attrs ... ok (Important)
Verifying: access-control-lists ... FAIL (Important)
Verifying: fifo ... FAIL
Verifying: devices ... FAIL
Verifying: combo-tests ... FAIL
Can I do better? Should I use different patches, different version,
different flags? Should I just give up and transfer only the files (no
-X), or try to use an HFS formatted partition on a flash drive?
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