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Why am I not surprised...
Dec. 1st, 2013 09:45 pmI am beginning to experience a phenomenon in which every other attempt to reach the LJ site is rebuffed. Go me.
That fits in well with today's general scene, in which I attempted to copy the contents of one drive to another, which caused Windows to barf somewhere along the line and turn something that was long enough into something entirely too long. Along the way, I found a strange folder filled with stuff that looks useful (but I'm not sure) and there's just short of 30 GB of content in said file (which is a big part of why I'm not sure... I haven't really had a good chance to figure out what's in the folder).
Why copy a drive, you may ask?
Well, the drive that was full of data turned out to be one of those USB 2.0 relics that still works, but it's actually plugged into a USB 3.0 port, and after "cleaning off" a bunch of files from an external drive with a USB 3.0 interface, the activity only made sense, especially since if I'm going to use a USB drive with Bit Torrent Sync on my Raspberry Pi, it may as well be one with a USB 2.0 link, since the Pi does not grok the faster interface.
In any event, BTS has been installed on the Pi, the USB drive has been reformatted from NTFS to FAT32 so as to be installable and writable in Linux, and files are being backed up as I post this.
There's a pile of work on the plate for tomorrow.
Bring it on!
That fits in well with today's general scene, in which I attempted to copy the contents of one drive to another, which caused Windows to barf somewhere along the line and turn something that was long enough into something entirely too long. Along the way, I found a strange folder filled with stuff that looks useful (but I'm not sure) and there's just short of 30 GB of content in said file (which is a big part of why I'm not sure... I haven't really had a good chance to figure out what's in the folder).
Why copy a drive, you may ask?
Well, the drive that was full of data turned out to be one of those USB 2.0 relics that still works, but it's actually plugged into a USB 3.0 port, and after "cleaning off" a bunch of files from an external drive with a USB 3.0 interface, the activity only made sense, especially since if I'm going to use a USB drive with Bit Torrent Sync on my Raspberry Pi, it may as well be one with a USB 2.0 link, since the Pi does not grok the faster interface.
In any event, BTS has been installed on the Pi, the USB drive has been reformatted from NTFS to FAT32 so as to be installable and writable in Linux, and files are being backed up as I post this.
There's a pile of work on the plate for tomorrow.
Bring it on!
