So after I excluded distfiles from my rsync, I found that the two
partitions had roughly the same free space... strange! How could
excluding around 6G of distfiles make two copies of the same thing the
same size?
Well, it turns out I have the distfiles mounted with --bind to my
ftp/pub directory. And looking in the rsync man page:
-x, --one-file-system
...
Also keep in mind that rsync treats a "bind" mount to
the same device as being on the same filesystem.
So my distfiles were being copied in /usr/portage as well
as /home/ftp/pub!
Unfortunately the only way to get around it seems to be another
--exclude directive. At least I understand what's going on now :)
thanks for all the suggestions,
--
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
Mr. Cole's Axiom:
The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the
population is growing.
