[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
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