On Wed 31 Aug 2005, Venkatesh.S wrote: > i have two machines, one is a rsync server and another is rsync client > > when i run the rsync client for backup, the src dir is showing 4.8G and > the destination dir to which i am backingup is showing 5.5G > can anyone tell me why is this.
Filesystem differences will do this, if your filesystem rounds up to e.g. 8k blocks for file allocation, then 1000 files of 1 byte will show 8MB; another filesystem that doesn't waste space like that (e.g. reiserfs with tail option) will show a few k. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
