Rsync: How do I find the path of my source and destination drives?

Pen guin · 06-28-2020, 11:49 AM

As I'm going to try to use rsync, (I found a great video) I need a way to find out the "path" to my nVME partition, and my Linux Backup partition on my WD Passport.

My question is, how do I do that?

Thanks...

fatmac · 06-28-2020, 12:21 PM

One way to find them is to use df.

If they aren't always present, you can use dmesg|tail just after plugging one in.

There are other ways, but these will likely suffice.

Pen guin · 06-28-2020, 02:11 PM

Thanks. fatmac.

quickbreakfast · 06-28-2020, 03:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pen guin

As I'm going to try to use rsync, (I found a great video)

Videos might be a good way to find anything, but I prefer to read about what I;m trying to do. As such I would suggest you read https://www.howtogeek.com/135533/how...data-on-linux/

I need a way to find out the "path" to my nVME partition, and my Linux Backup partition on my WD Passport.

Quote:

My question is, how do I do that?

If you open your file manager at the source location, the address should be at the top.

From there it is just a matter of entering the address into a terminal.. .. .. some terminal(s) permit copy and paste.

Likewise when you get to your destination localtion.

camorri · 06-28-2020, 03:59 PM

You can display the 'path' with the command 'lsblk'. Here is a sample from my desktop.

Quote:

lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT
sda
├─sda1 vfat FAT32 ESP BBB0-C902
├─sda2 swap 1 ceb3b670-a40b-4200-90c3-4b3cbd71774b
├─sda3 ext4 1.0 9a5baeaa-09b7-45f5-b740-ffabb6e0e95b
└─sda4 ext4 1.0 22e3795f-ee7b-45c8-b05a-f21b19882ddb
sdb
├─sdb1 ext4 1.0 b929cff0-e4ca-465f-8eae-1894473f2801
├─sdb2 swap 1 835347a9-0ef8-4c07-b8e4-177fdb8814a6
└─sdb3 ext4 1.0 54607404-17f5-4d97-9ba9-efe213a7b0ff
sr0
nvme0n1
├─nvme0n1p1 vfat FAT32 0280-786C 53.3M 46% /boot/efi
├─nvme0n1p2 swap 1 f0256f8b-7a1d-46e0-b8cd-228182c84bfc [SWAP]
├─nvme0n1p3 ext4 1.0 e9b17834-e581-4b77-a16c-a71083a9d484 27G 40% /
├─nvme0n1p4 ext4 1.0 512487a2-323b-433c-9cbd-721cbb575500 122.3G 32% /home
└─nvme0n1p5 ext4 1.0 data 6741792f-ada3-443b-ba78-8280a76e7524 81.4G 41% /home/cliff/data