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...n up my attic. I'd like to merge them all into one big filesystem. When there are different copies of the same files, I'd like to keep the newest; I don't know what else to do. My plan (assuming I'm going to retain 'path0' as the surviving filesystem) goes like this: rsync -azPv -u path-to-system-1 path0 rsync -azPv -u path-to-system-2 path0 rsync -azPv -u path-to-system-3 path0 rsync -azPv -u path-to-system-4 path0 rsync -azPv -u path-to-system-5 path0 and then rm -rf "path-to-system-?", and hope for the best. What kind of disaster can I look forward to with t...

Wondering why rsync isn't copying hidden files. I thought (google told me so) that rsync doesn't treat dot files specially. Source/destination rsync: 3.0.7 command: # rsync -azPv * 10.1.1.1:/u2/ubuntu/ sending incremental file list sent 96026 bytes received 388 bytes 38565.60 bytes/sec total size is 21562786526 speedup is 223647.88 The source files: # find . |wc -l;du -sm . 8975 du: cannot access `./.gvfs': Permission denied #dunno why 21786 . # ls -al|hea...