Hi James, > >>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? Yeah, that was just a typo :) > >>I made the partition a Linux partition id 82. > > Type 82 is linux swap space, not filesystem space. Again my mistake, sorry, I typed this email as a brain dump of the things I did when creating the filesystem on the drive. Basically I just used fdisk to create a Linux filesystem, and by default it would have created it as id 83, which it did. > >>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. Tried it and nothing showing up. I might try reducing the blocksize of the drive tomorrow (just for a test) to see if it makes a difference. Michael. Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com
