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
>
> 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?
>
<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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