On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 15:19 -0500, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
wrote:
Is there something wrong with this command?
[root@box9 simple]# scp -r bobg@box8:/home/bobg/
/run/media/bobg/Simple/Box8BkU
I would like to copy the contents [roughly 44G per du -h] of
/home/bobg/ on box8 to an external USB 500G hard drive. The problem
is that it appears to be trying to keep recopying the files until
the 500 gigs is reached. I let it run until the end yesterday and it
quit protesting it had run out of space.
I thought I had made an error entering the command and started again
from scratch [after rm -fr] but it looks like it was doing the same
thing now and I stopped it. Watching the screen I can see it is
recopying the same files, du -h shows 228G on the external drive and
it was still going when I stopped it. The source drive shows 44G ...
What am I doing wrong?
Bob
--
http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
box7
I would start on box9 and run: scp -r /home/bobg bobg@box8:/home/
--
=======================================================================
If Bill Gates is the Devil then Linus Torvalds must be the Messiah. --
Unknown source
=======================================================================
Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net