How did you get the USB copy of thunderbird to read your profile off of the USB drive instead of the Application Data folder in your Documents and Settings?
Drew On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:59:52 -0700, jb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, I have this new Sandisk Cruzer Mirco 512MB USB flash drive. I get > Thunderbird for Windows to run off it, so I can have my email client > with me at any PC, and I experiment a little with Damn Small Linux, but > I never got that to boot. Anyway, I decide to mirror my work directory > on it this morning, so I boot my laptop on its SuSE 8.2 partition, mount > the USB drive, and then run rsync -rv /home/jeremy/work/ > /media/sda1/home/work. > > It works, so I run it on my Thunderbird profile, to sync my USB version > of TB with my Windows version. My Windows partition on my laptop is > FAT-formatted, but everything seems to work perfectly. When I boot into > Windows, I click on the dirve and the pie chart shows it to be half > full. So, I start looking for whatever it was that was taking up so much > space. Imagine my surprise when one of the subfolders in my TB profile > is taking up 7.5GB! (At least, that's what Windows said.) I tried to > delete the folder, but I got a "can not read from disk" error. So, I > reboot into Linux, but mount keeps telling me there is no media. > > Finally, I reboot into Windows, but when I try to open the dirve (which > does appear in "My Computer"), it asks me to insert a disk. I tried it > on other boxes of different OS's and got the same result (it won't even > appear on a Mac). > > So, my question is this: Could rsyncing from a FAT Windows partition to > a FAT-formatted USB drive screw something up this bad? I figure that > rsync's ability to copy changed portions of files, combined with how USB > drives pretend to have sectors and such (so the drivers don't get > confused), may cause such a failure. > > Any thoughts? > > --jeremy > > PS - I took delivery of this drive less than 14 days ago, so Staples.com > is replacing it free of charge. Should I try rsync again? > > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > -- Drew A. Withers Webmaster, Department of Chemical Engineering Brigham Young University Phone: (801) 371-4436 VoiceMail/Fax: (206) 666-1805 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://drew.withers.sytes.net PGP Fingerprint: 2104 ACB1 FA42 D821 5178 42ED C965 2E4D 1042 149E -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
