What does diff -rw /data01 /data02 | less show up? > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Mansour > Sent: Wednesday, 26 May 2004 2:45 PM > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: rsyncing 79gb of data to 250gb drive > > > Hi, > > 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 > > I made the partition a Linux partition id 82. > > After format, 241Gb free space is recognised. > > 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? > > I first formatted this drive using 4096 block size and > got the result above, then I thought I'll reformat it > and change it to 1024 byte block size to try and get > back some space, the same result above. > > I've also made sure (with tune2fs) that the "sparse" > option is turned on for the large filesystem. > > I thought maybe the rsync was following symlinks > (which I'm sure there are none), but by default the > command: > > rsync -av > > won't do that. I checked for pipe and socket files > using find, and also couldn't see anything suspicious. > > I'm at a loss to figure this one out and thought I'd > email here for some help. > > Thanks. > > Michael. > > Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. > http://au.movies.yahoo.com > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
