On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, John Meissen wrote:
Actually, to be more precise, in the first line the directory 'foo' and
its contents are copied to /dest, while in the second just the contents of
'foo' (not the directory itself) are copied to /dest/foo.
Thanks for clarifying, John. That's what I
rshep...@appl-ecosys.com said:
In other words, each of the following commands copies the files in the same
way, including their setting of the attributes of /dest/foo:
rsync -av /src/foo /dest
rsync -av /src/foo/ /dest/foo
In the first line the contents of
Recently I installed Ubuntu 14.10 on a 2TB drive, because it was handy. I
selected the LVM filesystem because I thought it might be good to learn more
about it. I know virtually nothing about it now, though.
I discovered that I could not back up this installation with the software I had
been
On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Robert K wrote:
At the same time, I'd like to free up the 2TB drive, since I don't need
that much space for the Ubuntu installation. The partition structure on
the 500GB is probably the same (and, perhaps unfortunately, the volume
names are also the same). So it occurred
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:50 PM, John Meissen j...@meissen.org wrote:
rshep...@appl-ecosys.com said:
In other words, each of the following commands copies the files in the same
way, including their setting of the attributes of /dest/foo:
rsync -av /src/foo /dest
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 10:50:31PM +, Robert K wrote:
So it occurred to me that an application such as rsync might be
appropriate to copy the files recursively from the large drive to
the small one. Could anyone give me advice about how to do this
(preferably avoiding the use of the term
