rsyncing 79gb of data to 250gb drive

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Wed May 26 13:35:16 UTC 2004



James Wilkinson wrote:

>Michael Mansour wrote:
>  
>
>>I have an issue which I can't seem to figure out.
>>
>>I bought a 250Gb Maxtor Maxline Plus ATA133 drive,
>>plugged it into a server, formatted it using:
>>
>># e2fsck -m 0 -j -b 1024 /dev/hdc1
>>    
>>

formatted using e2fsck??
Do you perchance mean mke2fs?

>>I made the partition a Linux partition id 82.
>>    
>>

Type 82 is linux swap space, not filesystem space.

>>After format, 241Gb free space is recognised.
>>    
>>

This seems reasonable

>>I have 80Gb of data on another drive in the system
>>that I wish to backup onto this drive. So after
>>rsyncing the drives contents from the 79Gb (which is
>>on a stripe) to the maxtor 250Gb drive, the following
>>is the result:
>>
>>/dev/md6              85419328  79573952   1506236 
>>99% /data01
>>/dev/hdc1            241201359 123508888 117692471 
>>52% /data02
>>
>>123Gb used??? this is what is confusing me, why?
>>
>>    
>>
><snip>
>  
>
>>I thought maybe the rsync was following symlinks
>>(which I'm sure there are none), but by default the
>>    
>>
>
>What about hard links? Try
>find /data01 -type f -links +1 -ls | sort
>to see if there are any.
>
>HTH,
>
>James.
>  
>





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