2010/1/13 Paul Slootman <paul+rs...@wurtel.net <paul%2brs...@wurtel.net>>

> On Wed 13 Jan 2010, Thomas Evangelidis wrote:
>
> > I want to backup my Documents directory and instead of copying everything
> to
> > my external disk I tried to use this command line to create an
> incremental
> > backup with rsync on my external disk:
>
> You _did_ format the external disk with a filesystem that understands
> hardlinks, yes? Such disks usually come preformatted with FAT which
> doesn't support many Unix concepts.
>  <http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/smart-questions.html>
>

Good point! What's the recommended filesystem? Which tool do you suggest for
reformatting, is GParted ok?
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