Make that group and owner ships are not synchronized, this might be helpful when synchronizing When dealing with FAT file systems that do not understand upper and lower case. Useful options to be put into the *.prf files are ignorecase = true Not using FAT and switching to NTFS-3g is probably the better option, theĪdditional time to install it will quickly pay back. Sometimes the filenames change upper and lower case lettersĪnd results in Unison with a file name changed during synchronization error (This might be the FATĭriver or Unison itself). Unfortunately there is also a mess with upper and lower caseĬharacters in filenames when using FAT. The permissions should be clean, this can become tricky when Windows file systems are used thatĭon't support different users.
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The default permissions of the NTFS or FAT file system, then synchronize the Linux and the NTFS or
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On the non-Microsoft files system run something as chmod -R 755 * to set the permissions to Permission bits and can therefore run into errors when it likes to modify NTFS and FAT permissionīits. This can cause problems with unison, since unison synchronizes also the Microsoft files systems do not support all the Linux permission options instead, default It is also possible to edit them however unison will then restart from scratch.Įxample to synchronize to directories on two different computers using ssh: prf (profile) and canīe opened with an editor. Of the user within the hidden directory ~/.unison.
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Unison stores its configuration files containing the two root directories in the home directory Using ssh (don't use root for the ssh user). It can synchronize between hard disk and usb memory stick but also between two different computer
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This has improved, if it fails unison tells why and how to fix it. Only negative points are that is is a bit slow and the older versions struggle with microsoft filesystems used under linux. I heavily use unison since years, Unison simply works as desired so there is not much to say.