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On KDE Plasma, I used a WD external drive with NTFS file format, but at some point the HP probook laptop refused to mount that disk (I posted another query about it previously).
So, using the KDE partition Manager I formated it to ext4 format. Now my laptop is "Happy" and mounts the disk OK.
But when trying to execute the dayly backup script, the backup fails with the following errors (just part, there are more with same error)
Code:
rsync: [generator] symlink "/media/alexe/Elements/sat/grsync.desktop" -> "unsupported reparse tag 0xa000000c" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
rsync: [generator] symlink "/media/alexe/Elements/sat/kcm_kup.desktop" -> "unsupported reparse tag 0xa000000c" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
rsync: [generator] symlink "/media/alexe/Elements/sat/org.kde.ktimer.desktop" -> "unsupported reparse tag 0xa000000c" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
rsync: [generator] symlink "/media/alexe/Elements/sat/BondsandStocks/For_Ian_2021_22/SuperFund_21_22.xlsx" -> "unsupported reparse tag 0xa000000c" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
"Reparse"... All more than double dutch to me...
I am attaching a screen shot of what I have here
Onthe left column, the first item is the Internal storage device of my laptop
The 2nd item is the external disk, I have no idea why does it need the first partition at all and why is it in FAT file system. The actual storage itself is in ext4 as you can see, so:
1) Where can NTFS be hiding?
2) What if I delete the FAT partition, will the content of the disk be wiped?
"Reparse"... All more than double dutch to me...
I am attaching a screen shot of what I have here
Onthe left column, the first item is the Internal storage device of my laptop
The 2nd item is the external disk, I have no idea why does it need the first partition at all and why is it in FAT file system. The actual storage itself is in ext4 as you can see, so:
1) Where can NTFS be hiding?
2) What if I delete the FAT partition, will the content of the disk be wiped?
No Windows in my place for the past 4 years.
When the trash job finishes, I will set it to ext4.
Will report back
Cheers
were you able to solve this issue?
Even I am facing some what similar issue when I am trying to copy data ( 112 gb) from my hard disk to USB 2.0 pend drive storage.
Also, the rsync command exits intermitently during the copy process, throwing error saying "write failed../... system.img.. file size too large.."
any idea how to fix this?
Should we format the pen drive with ext4 format before executing the rsync command.
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