Hi All
Problem has arisen from moving/copying /Home info.
New PC is up and running but problem is I have not managed to 'copy'
across my /home area from the laptop.
Ralph suggested the following but I'm having problem:
On laptop:
cd / - gets me up one level to the / area OK.
sudo tar cvf /home /
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:06:52 -, Clive Wills
wrote:
> On laptop:
> cd / - gets me up one level to the / area OK.
> sudo tar cvf /home /media/disk/home.tar
I think what you are after is actually
sudo tar cvf /media/disk/home.tar /home
The manual for tar I have on Fedora says its this way ro
Hi Clive,
> Ralph suggested the following but I'm having problem:
>
> On laptop:
> cd / - gets me up one level to the / area OK.
> sudo tar cvf /home /media/disk/home.tar
>
> Not working - reports :- tar: home: cannot open. Is a directory.
> tar: Error is not recoverable.
Did I suggest that?
Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Clive,
>
>> Ralph suggested the following but I'm having problem:
>>
>> On laptop:
>> cd / - gets me up one level to the / area OK.
>> sudo tar cvf /home /media/disk/home.tar
>>
>> Not working - reports :- tar: home: cannot open. Is a directory.
>> tar: Error is not reco
Ralph Corderoy wrote:
>> What's wrong please? At least it did something and I've deleted the
>> file created from the USB stick.
>>
>
> It suggests there's not enough space on the USB stick.
It's worth checking that deleted files aren't being stored on the USB
stick in question.
Whilst yo
Hi Clive,
> That's better it worked but finished with a error so i reduced the
> pictures folder considerably and tried again, still an error:-
>
> tar: /media/disk/home.tar: wrote only 8192 of 10240 bytes
> tar: error is not recoverable.
Is that the same error as the first time? Doesn't matte
Hi Sean,
> > It suggests there's not enough space on the USB stick.
>
> It's worth checking that deleted files aren't being stored on the USB
> stick in question.
>
> Whilst you can appear to have enough space in terms of what you /know/
> is stored on there, a large amount can also be consum
Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Sean,
>
>>> It suggests there's not enough space on the USB stick.
>> It's worth checking that deleted files aren't being stored on the USB
>> stick in question.
>>
>> Whilst you can appear to have enough space in terms of what you /know/
>> is stored on there, a large
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:41:49 +, infocawi...@talktalk.net said:
> wonder if this is causing the problem, is
> there a file size limit on vfat?
There's a file limit size for all filesystems as far as I'm aware. For
vfat, it's 4Gb (actually 1 byte under 4Gb, but who's counting?).
Why not form
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:41:49 -, C A Wills
wrote:
> By the way the USB stick is an 8Gb one so should not be full; just
> thought - formatted vfat - wonder if this is causing the problem, is
> there a file size limit on vfat?
That would be the problem then I'm guessing. You will have a 4GB f
hard drives as it can be very busy.
Simono
- Original Message -
From: "Robert Bronsdon"
To: "Dorset Linux User Group"
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Dorset] Moving Home partition - Re DLUG meet
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:41:49 -, C A Wil
Simon O'Riordan wrote:
> All flash drives die eventually; the individual memory cells are worm out
> after about 100,000 operations each, and so over time the amount of physical
> memory in the drive dies off.
> Having said which, I don't know which file system is hardest on the chips; I
> have
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:30:47 -, Justin Stringfellow
wrote:
> That said, I would have guessed that a decent SSD will be able to
> retire/reallocate flaky memory locations before they fail completely.
I tend to 'attempt' similar myself. I try to only write to a USB key once
per session. So
C A Wills wrote:
> Ralph Corderoy wrote:
>> Hi Sean,
>>
It suggests there's not enough space on the USB stick.
>>> It's worth checking that deleted files aren't being stored on the USB
>>> stick in question.
>>>
>>> Whilst you can appear to have enough space in terms of what you /know/
>>> i
On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 11:56 +, C A Wills wrote:
> C A Wills wrote:
> > Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> >> Hi Sean,
> >>
> It suggests there's not enough space on the USB stick.
> >>> It's worth checking that deleted files aren't being stored on the USB
> >>> stick in question.
> >>>
> >>> Whilst
2009/11/13 Peter Merchant :
>
> As a non-expert, I am wondering if you are using a sledge-hammer to
> crack a nut by using tar. Is it not possible to copy sets of files
> across to the memstick and thence to the new machine?
This sounds like a very good point. This thread started going down a
'I h
Peter Merchant wrote:
> As a non-expert, I am wondering if you are using a sledge-hammer to
> crack a nut by using tar. Is it not possible to copy sets of files
> across to the memstick and thence to the new machine?
>
>
Hi Peter... the problem with that is that the memstick is formatted as a
Hi Clive,
> Repartitioned the USB stick to /media/disk (3+Gb Fat32) and /media/Linux
> (4.Gb ext3).
> Tried sudo tar cjvf /media/Linux/home.tar.bz2 /home
>
> Reported the following:
>
> tar: /media/Linux/home.tar.bz2: cannot open: no such file or directory.
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exi
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