Gparted should be perfectly fine. As for the FS type, EXT3/4 should be
fine for an external drive, although everyone has their favorite.
On 01/13/2010 09:44 AM, Thomas Evangelidis wrote:
2010/1/13 Paul Slootman <paul+rs...@wurtel.net
<mailto: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?
--
Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list.
To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync
Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
