Here are a couple of questions on rsync:

1. the amount of files for hg19 and mm9 is extremely different (over 600 vs. 88 Gb) - why is that so? They are both mammalian genomes ... are there redundant files in hg19, is mm9 incomplete...?

2. if I list the directories for hg19 and mm9, there seems to be a group of files for bowtie2 in hg19, but not in mm9 - where are the ones for mm9?

3. genome sequences such as mm9.fa are not in /indexes, there are only pointers

(mm9/bowtie_index/mm9.fa -> ../seq/mm9.fa ) can the sequence files be 'rsync'ed from somewhere?

Gerald