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Does rsync work with vfat partitions? (See below, especially the paragraph
starting "(Before I send ...".)
I tried Cameron Simpson's advice (touching the local copy of the iso), and the
results are useful but disappointing -- it shows that rsync is not updating the
iso. (Thanks, Cameron.)
Below is the "transcript" of my run of rsync. I suspect the problem relates to
the "unexpected EOF in read_timeout", but I don't know exactly what that means
or what to do about it.
(Before I send this, I'll try changing permissions to 777.) Oops, I cannot
change the permissions, and I think it is because the partition I am using
is a vfat partition. Does rsync have a problem with vfat partitions?
If not, can anybody spot another problem?
(I see that the protocol versions don't match -- is that the problem?)
Thanks,
Randy Kramer
PS: If anyone notices the dos version of md5sum.exe, it is there because I
sometimes download and check files in dos/windows.
[root@System11 DOS_hda8]# rsync --partial -progress -vvv -t -c
carroll.cac.psu.edu::mandrake-iso/mandrakefreq-i586-20010316.iso
mandrakefreq-i586-20010316.iso
local_version=21 remote_version=24 receiving
file list ... recv_file_name(mandrakefreq-i586-20010316.iso)
received 1 names
done
recv_file_list done
get_local_name count=1 mandrakefreq-i586-20010316.iso
generator starting pid=812 count=1
recv_files(1) starting
recv_generator(mandrakefreq-i586-20010316.iso,0)
unexpected EOF in read_timeout
sending sums for 0
[root@System11 DOS_hda8]# ls -al
total 668604
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Dec 31 1969 ./
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Feb 3 15:37 ../
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 63 Sep 13 2000 .directory*
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 27 2000 Linux/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 684400640 Apr 5 04:47 mandrakefreq-i586-20010316.iso*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 45056 Dec 18 1999 md5.exe*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 29811 Sep 7 2000 md5.zip*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 107 Nov 16 10:59 md5sums*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 65 Mar 20 10:52 md5sums.mandrakefreq*
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 147456 Sep 28 2000 recycled/
[root@System11 DOS_hda8]#
