Re: A question about ls's behaviour (was: A question about rsync's behaviour)

2010-08-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > But, now, another strange behaviour from `ls' command: The ls command is simply reporting what it is reading from the filesystem. This isn't strange ls behavior but normal ls behavior. :-) > just after copying `~/Mail' to `/mnt/pendrive/Mail', I have: > > $ ls -ld Mail >

Re: A question about rsync's behaviour

2010-08-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
In article <4c643b1a.7060...@gmail.com> you write: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA256 > >On 08/12/2010 01:14 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >>> `uid=1000'. >> >> >> I spoke too early: the problem reappears at any new mounting of the pendrive. >> Jordan, what do you mean by time preserva

rsync re-syncs unmodified files (was: A question about rsync's behaviour)

2010-08-12 Thread Rodolfo Medina
When using rsync from pc to usb stick, it re-syncs unmodified files, which is annoying with large backups. In rsync man page, I found the following: When transferring to FAT filesystems rsync may re-sync unmodified files. See the comments on the --modify-window option. And, the comm

Re: A question about rsync's behaviour

2010-08-12 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/12/2010 01:14 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> `uid=1000'. > > > I spoke too early: the problem reappears at any new mounting of the pendrive. > Jordan, what do you mean by time preservation? The time of the file is the > same on te pc and on th

Re: A question about rsync's behaviour

2010-08-12 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: On 08/12/2010 11:17 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >>> I wish to know why rsync behaves in two different ways when working between >>> two pcs connected by ethernet cable and, instead, when copying files from a >>> pc to a pendrive. Here's the output in the former case: >>> >

Re: A question about ls's behaviour (was: A question about rsync's behaviour)

2010-08-12 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On 08/12/2010 11:17 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> I wish to know why rsync behaves in two different ways when working between >> two pcs connected by ethernet cable and, instead, when copying files from a >> pc to a pendrive. Here's the output in the former case: >> >> $ rsync -vrtul --delete Mai

Re: A question about rsync's behaviour

2010-08-12 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/12/2010 11:17 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi to all Debian users. > > I wish to know why rsync behaves in two different ways when working between > two > pcs connected by ethernet cable and, instead, when copying files from a pc to > a > pen

A question about rsync's behaviour

2010-08-12 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi to all Debian users. I wish to know why rsync behaves in two different ways when working between two pcs connected by ethernet cable and, instead, when copying files from a pc to a pendrive. Here's the output in the former case: $ rsync -vrtul --delete Mail News 192.168.0.2:/home/rodolfo rodo