rsync on OSX for transferring files using FAT32

[Michael Lachmann]

2009/5/12 henri <henri at stmargarets.school.nz>:
> Which version of Mac OS X are you running? If you are on Mac OS 10.5.x then
> I can only suggest that you try either formating the drive to HFS+ or
> creating a disk image with an HFS+ file system.

This is on 10.5.2

Yes, I made an HFS+ partition, and things seem to work well. Faster, too.

I would still like to have the drive formated in FAT32, since I carry
it in a device (book reader) that only reads FAT partitions.... I
guess you can't win them all.


2009/5/12 henri <henri at stmargarets.school.nz>:

> Finally, consider whether the ACL data is important. If it is not important
> then, you could experiment with not preserving the ACL information by
> removing the appropriate flags.

Which flags should I use? I think ACL isn't important, but in general
extended attributes are. I think that things worked well without the
-X flag, but errors occur with -X.

thanks

>
> Also, I agree with the post from Veronica.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
>
>
> On 11/05/2009, at 1:54 AM, Michael Lachmann wrote:
>
>> I am trying to transfer files between two OSX machines using a FAT32
>> formatted flash drive. I am transferring a "big" directory (7G).
>> Basically I want to sync everyday my home and work computers for some
>> directories.
>>
>> I tried many possible rsyncs (original supplied, fink 3.0.5/3.0.4
>> macports 3.0.5, rsync-2.6.3+hfsmode-1.2b2, 3.0.6+fileflags+crtimes)
>>
>> What I would really like to happen is:
>> all additional HFS attributes of files are tranferred, and
>> when no or few changes occur, nothing or little should be copied or
>> transferred, so I can go home quickly.
>>
>> I am currently using 3.0.6+fileflags+crtimes, with the following command:
>> sudo rsync -aNHAXx --fileflags --force-change --modify-window=1  SRC DST
>>
>> I get errors of the type:
>> rsync: get_xattr_names:
>> llistxattr("masking/figures/._intro_err_2tissue_worst_best_add1.pdf",1024)
>> failed: Operation not permitted (1)
>>
>> These errors occur, I think, trying to access files that store xattr
>> on the FAT32 drive. They occur even in a trial run (-n). What is
>> interesting is that if I run rsync several times consecutively, I get
>> a different set of files that report these errors - each odd run one
>> set, and on the even run another.
>> In addition, I see files that are transferred every time - even when
>> no change happens. These seem to be directories and some of the
>> attributes files (._*)
>>
>> I tried to use bbouncer to check what is copied correctly. For this I did
>> sudo rsync -vaNHAXx --fileflags --force-change --modify-window=1
>> /Volumes/Src/ /Volumes/FAT32/DST
>> sudo rsync -vaNHAXx --fileflags --force-change --modify-window=1
>> /Volumes/FAT32/DST/ /Volumes/Dst/
>>
>> and then compared the results with
>> sudo bbouncer verify /Volumes/Src /Volumes/Dst
>>
>> Here are the results:
>> Verifying:    basic-permissions ... FAIL (Critical)
>> Verifying:           timestamps ... stat: ./some-file: stat: No such
>> file or directory
>> FAIL (Critical)
>> Verifying:             symlinks ... ok (Critical)
>> Verifying:    symlink-ownership ... FAIL
>> Verifying:            hardlinks ... stat: link1: stat: No such file or
>> directory
>> stat: link2: stat: No such file or directory
>> stat: link3: stat: No such file or directory
>> FAIL (Important)
>> Verifying:       resource-forks ... FAIL (Critical)
>> Verifying:         finder-flags ... ok (Critical)
>> Verifying:         finder-locks ... ok
>> Verifying:        creation-date ... ok
>> Verifying:            bsd-flags ... ok
>> Verifying:       extended-attrs ... ok (Important)
>> Verifying: access-control-lists ... FAIL (Important)
>> Verifying:                 fifo ... FAIL
>> Verifying:              devices ... FAIL
>> Verifying:          combo-tests ... FAIL
>>
>> Can I do better? Should I use different patches, different version,
>> different flags? Should I just give up and transfer only the files (no
>> -X), or try to use an HFS formatted partition on a flash drive?
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