I reformatted my music drive ext3 from NTFS and from my external backup I simply used cp -r * to my newly formatted drive.
It seemed to work - there was an identical number of files and the data size was identical. However my File Browser window gave a rather alarming description - -some of the contents could not be read-. Everything looks OK but now I'm getting paranoid. cp has failed on me without warning when transferring over certain files with characters in the filename. I am sure I have more than a few such files in my music collection, but where they might be I have no clue. I'm investigating rsync and I'm currently carrying out: rsync -t -r [source] [dest] on this folder. This should recursively transfer over files with their original timestamps. It should have only transferred over files that were different from the source, but this is taking so long it must be copying every file and folder. What's going on? Are all my files corrupted? Is rsync doing something stupid like make a duplicate of every file? Once rsync is finished, how can I independently verify that every single file transferred over without any errors? MD5 sums? I know rsync is very well respected - where I have doubts is the operator, i.e. me. I think I don't know enough about it to know what I'm doing. I have read the documentation and it's mostly above my head, plus I get the feeling there are certain things being omitted - like instead of copying the files, is it just making a snapshot? If cp -r * worked, why is rsync going to town on the drive right now? <breathes into paper bag> -- Mark Lanctot 'Sean Adams' Response-O-Matic checklist, patent pending!' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=200910&postcount=2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35211 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
