okay.... upon the first run i suppose it showed me all of the files it was copying and then it said that 'some files or attrs were not transfered.' so I ran it again and what do you know 4 more files were copied... then again and 2 copied.... now it just says that no files or attrs were transfered. so take this as a warning all you rsyncers out there, you need to run it multiple times. So which files are not transfering? Here is what is on the screen: sudo rsync -va ending incremental file list rsync: readlink_stat("/home/bmike1/.gvfs') failed: Permision denied (13) sent x bytes received y bytes z bytes/sec total size is a bytesw speedup is b bytes rsync error: some files/attrs were not transfered (see previous errors) (code 25) at main.c(1070) [sender=3.0.8] So which files are not transferring? The only thing I can think from the information given is: readlink_stat("/home/bmike1/.gvfs Then I added the --checksum in the hopes that would tell me more information and after a long wait I suppose another file transfered (bmike1/.cache/ubuntuone/log/syncdaemon.log). And so now I run it again.... and it looks as if the same file transferred. So I must ask.... am I correct in my assesment of what isn't transferring? On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > thanks ben. As it copies it runs out of room in the destination. It seems > my home directory is larger than 13gig but the partition is only 10 gig.. > It seems I have to repartition my drive again. And I thought this was going > to be difficult. Actually I didn't think I had enough free space to > repartition. > > > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Ben Browning wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Michael Havens wrote: >> >>> well now I need to work on the other computer a little. I wanted to move >>> the print server's /home to it's own partition but the partition i want to >>> use is too small. So, my question is what do I need to copy? >>> /home//documents i know I need but what else? I guess that is it. If >>> there is space I suppose Downloads too. And to get it to see /dev/sda3 as >>> the new location for documents I would 'export >>> /home//documents=/mnt/sda3/documents. Copying the documemts would be: >>> 'rsync -va --checksum /mnt/home/documents /mnt/sda3. does this sound right? >> >> >> rsync -va /mnt/home/ /mnt/sda3/ >> >> Skip checksum, it will go faster and check date and size and not checksum >> every file. Simply run it again when it's done and it should sync nothing, >> showing you it's all there. >> >> On your first box, the fix is: >> >> 1) mount new partition to, say, /mnt/new/ >> 2) rsync -va /mnt/home/bmike1 /mnt/new/ >> 3) note the trailing slash and no trailing slash in 2). This should >> result in /mnt/new/bmike1 >> 4) edit /etc/fstab to put the device on /mnt/new on /home >> 5) mv /home /home.bk >> 6) mkdir /home >> 7) mount -a >> 8) confirm /home/bmike1 exists and is writable by bmike1 >> 9) reboot, everything should work >> 10) rm -rf /home.bk when you are sure everything is functional. >> >> ~Ben >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: