On Wed, Feb  3, 2021 at 10:07:03PM -0500, Craig McIlwee wrote:
> 
> (replying to the entire list instead of Bruce only this time...)
> 
> 
> 
>     This doesn't make sense to me.  Since we hard-linked, why would 12 be so
>     much smaller?  If it was symlinks, I could imaging that, but it doesn't
>     use symlinks, just hard links, so it should be similar.  Please look at
>     the size of main/base on both, since that is where your data is.  Maybe
>     11 just has a lot of old WAL that isn't copied.
> 
> 
> 
> It depends on how the directory sizes were measured. "du" won't count the same
> file more than once, so if space was measured using one of the following
> commands:
> 
> du -hs /var/lib/postgresql/
> du -hs /var/lib/postgresql/11/main /var/lib/postgresql/12/main 
> 
> Then you would see a large value for the 11 directory and then the 12 
> directory
> would only show the files that weren't already counted when measuring the 11
> directory.  Running du on each version's directory separately might give
> results that are more in line with expectations.

Yes, I was assuming the du commands were run separately on each
directory.

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  Bruce Momjian  <br...@momjian.us>        https://momjian.us
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