On 06/06/07, luxxius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd be grateful for a bit of advice about something that's probably > utterly obvious to anyone but a complete noob like me.
It sounds like, from your comments below, that you're not a *complete* noob :-) > [snip] > ###### > rsync: chgrp "/media/USBdisc/Music/Podcasts/In Our Time/65. William of > Ockham 31 May 07.mp3" failed: Operation not permitted (1) > > rsync: chgrp "/media/USBdisc/Music/." failed: Operation not permitted (1) > > sent 218669 bytes received 24480 bytes 486298.00 bytes/sec > total size is 75452289335 speedup is 310312.97 > rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at > main.c(977) [sender=2.6.9] > ###### > > > I think (I hope!) this may mean that all the files were actually > transferred, but rsync could not synchronise some group permissions. > Is that right? Or were some files actually not transferred? I haven't used rsync much, but I would guess from the error message (and where I've seen it before) that the USB drive is formatted using FAT, i.e. a Windows filesystem (if you haven't reformatted since you bought it, this is almost certainly true). I'm fairly sure that your conclusion is correct - you could check quickly by looking at the file properties (size and date/time) for one of the files mentioned in the error message. Since only a few have failed, this shouldn't take too long. To prevent it, check the group for the files that gave errors and one of the files that didn't. Change the problem files to be in the group that isn't causing problems. Other than that, you could reformat the USB drive using a Linux filesystem (which will lose everything that's currently on it - beware!), or use something like tar or zip to create an archive and copy the archive onto the drive - this latter course will mean you miss out on some of the benefits offered by rsync though. If you use the drive on Windows, reformatting it will make it more difficult to access the files on the drive. It's still possible, since there are free drivers to access Linux filesystems (and they work better than accessing Windows filesystems on Linux, since the specifications are freely available). If you're interested in this and would like to know more, post a reply. Hope I haven't included too much info. If I've glossed over anything and you'd like more details, also post a reply. Hwyl, Neil. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
