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On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 17:15 +0100, james kilty wrote: > On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 15:19 +0100, kevin wrote: > > > this works for me > > To transfer from Shop on Shop to kevinspc as root do > > > > rsync -avz ~shop/Documents/ kevinspc:~kevin/shoprsync/ > I used the following in my first attempt to use rsync on my desktop. > rsync -avz ~james/Documents/ /media/FREECOM/rsyncdocsdesk/ > Can you write this to /tmp instead? I feel you have a write permissions problem for /media > I get the error > rsync: failed to set times on "media/FREECOM/rsyncdocsdesk/." Operation > not permitted (1) > it seemed to copy the few files there but no directories. It gave the > error > Cbibbg/ > rsync: recv generator: mkdir/"media/FREECOM/rsyncdocsdesk/Cbibbg failed: > permission denied (13) > > The owner of FREECOM is root. So I did it with sudo > > It worked through a huge number of files unsuccessfully. I got the > following error in every case (with corresponding destination name): > > rsync: chown /media/FREECOM/rsyncdocsdesk/Cbibbg" failed: Operation not > permitted (1). > > They all seem to be folders. > > I tried to change permissions using sudo konqueror, which I thought I > had done successfully some weeks ago, but I get the following error on > opening konqueror: > > Error: "var/tmp/kdecache-james" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0 > (and a few other files in tmp and var) > > If I then try to change permissions (which again I thought I had done > successfully before and I was then able to write files on the disc which > mounts every time now after I managed to create a mount point myself) > I get a large number of the following: > QObject::connect: (sender name: 'job') > ditto (receiver name: 'unnamed') > ditto No such signal > KIO:SimpleJob::redirection(KIO::Job*.const KURL&) > > If I try chown for the first time with > sudo chown james -R /media/FREECOM/ > > I get a lot of the files looked at and get: > > chown: changing ownership of '/media/FREECOM/': operation not permitted > (for all the files listed) > > Strangely I don't get all folders listed and the ones not mentioned have > not changed in ownership. > > FINALLY AFTER ALL THAT I looked at the folder rsyncdocsdesk and it seems > to have most of the stuff there (296 sybfolders with 4574 files instead > of 300 subfolders with 4616 files)! I am sure you will recognise that I > am confused about what has been happening here. > > Perhaps you could assist my decoding of the information and the apparent > success against all indications and give me pointers for the next time I > use rsync. > > Of course FREECOM is formatted with FAT32. I cannot now write to it by > dragging and dropping in Konqueror! Nor with cp command: > cp ~james/Documents/sudoku3.ods /media/FREECOM/ > I get > cp: cannot create regular file '/media/FREECOM/sudoku3.ods': Permission > denied. > > Thanks > > -- > james kilty > http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk > > Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) reprieved Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html