cp/rsync problem

Jack Mendez wiler1 at earthlink.net
Sat May 8 11:04:23 EDT 2004


>
>The only thing I can think of is that rsync is using temporary files
>somewhere on /dev/hda1. This doesn't make sense though if cp does the
>same thing. Perhaps your commands aren't actually doing what you think.
>A script of the problem might be helpful. I.E.
>
>script copystuff.script
>cp stuff newstuff
>rsync stuff newstuff
>exit
>here is what i am typing

cp -R /mnt/source/* /mnt/hdd2/
and or
rsync --progress -pour /mnt/source/* /mnt/hdd2/

pretty basic stuff





>then send us the script. Sounds very like a temp file issue happening
>somewhere though.
>
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