On Friday 20 April 2007, Dario Lesca wrote: > Il giorno ven, 20/04/2007 alle 11.51 +0100, Anne Wilson ha scritto: > > I know where it is, or appears to be, but if, on the command line, you cd > > to /media, you cannot ls any content there. > > from command line you can use 'gnome-mount --help' > # gnome-mount -d /dev/sda1 > > or mount the device on a know folder es: > # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/mydisk > > Create first time the folder's backup: > # mkdir /mnt/mydisk/backup > > then: > > # test -d /mnt/mydisk/backup && > rsync -avz -H -R /etc /home/user /mnt/mydisk/backup > > Hope this help. > Let me explain a bit clearer :-) I have some large files on this box (FC6) that I need to also have on my laptop (Mandriva). Therefore I need to rsync box > removable drive > laptop. On both the box and the laptop I can see the files in konqueror - so it is mounting the drive correctly. I can move files around manually. What I can't do is find an rsync command that will address the removable drive. Anne
