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["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Duaine & Laura Hechler wrote:
> I'm trying to run rsync against a hard drive directory to a usb flash
> drive directory and I'm getting errors about can't change the permissions.
>
> Currently, it's mkdosfs -F 32
>
> What should a flash drive be formated as (specifically if I want to run
> rsync to it) ?

Your flash drive is fine, change your rsync options. I suspect you are
trying to use rsync -a. '-a' implies -rlptgoD. You are not going to
preserve -l (links) -p (permissions) -g (group) -o (owner) -D (special
devices) on a fat32 file system. Just change your rsync options to -rt
and you should be fine. If you need to preserve everything, then yes
reformat.

google is your friend:
(http://sathyasays.com/2007/06/13/formatting-usb-pen-drive-in-linux-using-terminal/)

nsert your USB pen drive. Let it get detected and mounted. Open
Terminal. Type The Following commands
 1. dmesg |tail –> here the ‘|’ key is the pipe, ie, the key before the
backspace key(the upper one, so press shift)
 You’ll get something like
sathya@shaman:~$ dmesg |tail
 [ 9921.681164] sda: Write Protect is off
 [ 9921.681174] sda: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
 [ 9921.681178] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
 [ 9921.709138] SCSI device sda: 4030464 512-byte hdwr sectors (2064 MB)
 [ 9921.720951] sda: Write Protect is off
 [ 9921.720963] sda: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
 [ 9921.720967] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
 [ 9921.721225] sda:
 [ 9921.727896] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
 [ 9921.744187] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
 Note the terms in bold. In your system it will be different, maybe sdb
or something. Whatever it may be, make sure to substitute it in the
commands below, else your hard disk may get formatted.
2. Unmount your pen drive by using
 sudo umount /dev/sda (In your case, please substitute sda with the
appropriate device, listed above.
3. use the mkfs.vfat command to format to FAT32 filesystem, or mkfs.ext3
to format to ext3 filesystem
 sudo mkfs.vfat -n ‘Label’ -I /dev/sda Replace Label with the name you
want the pen drive to have.
4. That’s it! When done formatting, you’ll be returned to the prompt
 sathya@shaman:~$ mkfs.vfat -n ’sathya’ -I /dev/sda
 mkfs.vfat 2.11 (12 Mar 2005)
 sathya@shaman:~$
Remove and insert the pen drive to have mounted again!

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