On Monday 20 December 2004 12:45 pm, John Van Essen wrote: > Had you already run rsync before encountering that disk problem? Thank You so much John, you clarified everything! > Maybe the target has junk in it that you fixed/deleted on the source? No, i did that a while ago (a month) and that old fsck.ext3 turns out to be a red herring. > Are you running rsync with --delete? It will remove leftover garbage. No I ran it without delete. But my whole letter assumed that there was no circumstance that could lead my system to delete files. In fact, I discovered that there could be such a rare deletion triggering circumstance, that myself actually triggered by some changes I made to the system the day between the two rsyncs!! So in fact that one directory should have been smaller on the preimage! And it is. > Add --dry-run to see what rsync would delete without actually doing it. > > The other three cases where the size is smaller by 4096 bytes are very > likely from source directories that used to contain a larger number of > files, but no longer do, so the target directory needs 1 fewer block > to hold the entries for the current files. Wonderful!! That explains it exactly!!! You are 100% right!!!! Thanks!!!! I didnt think of the 4096 as representing a block. And the same mechanism I mentioned above was active over here to cause an OLD delete of images,!!! You are wonderful! And thank you, Wayne too! I am grateful to both of you. I will be playing with Wayne's method of working with the screen tonight! Thank you both!!! Mitchell > > John -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
