[Novalug] Partitioning an External Hard Drive
Mackenzie Morgan
macoafi@gmail.com
Mon Sep 29 17:04:01 EDT 2008
On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 15:52 -0500, Beartooth wrote:
> I've been meaning for years to get around to starting to
> learn rsync, and never done it. Is it going to obviate my moving
> the USB cable from one machine to another, by pulling stuff
> across the LAN? (I probably won't know what stuff I want till I
> can see it in Nautilus.)
Yep, you can do rsync over the network. I've only ever done it locally,
so check the manpage. You're definitely going to want rsync -av though.
The -a is archive and rolls in all the flags you'd want for backup,
while the -v tells it to spit out what it's doing.
> Also, will rsync facilitate giving names (preferably the
> names of machines, especially if I ever succeed in getting my
> machines to remember their names), instead of stuff like
> "disk-6"? Or do I want to do that (somehow; maybe with mv?)
> before I put stuff onto the partitions? When I right-click,
> nautilus shows the Rename option grayed out. (I haven't closed
> gparted yet.)
Disk labels aren't part of rsync. Disk-6 is a hal thing, I think. You
can set your own more sensible mountpoints in fstab.
--
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
apt-get moo
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