Synchronization Question

[Matthew R. Dempsky]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 09:25:18PM -0500, Mark Johanson wrote:
> I am taking a class in web coding and I wanted to sync a
> directory on a thumbdrive and a directory on my laptop. This way
> both are always up to date. 

Do you plan to never make changes to both between a sync?

If so, two easy options are either just always work directly off the 
thumbdrive or try the ``-a'' and ``-u'' options for cp(1).  (You might 
also need the ``-t'' option depending on how you invoke it.)