On 2023-01-23, Steve Fairhead wrote:
> On 23/01/2023 01:47, NilsOla Nilsson wrote:
>> Possible explanation: if you have several hard links
>> pointing to the same file (inode) rsync will expand
>> those to separate files, unless you give the option -H
>
> And you were quite right, and I apologise
On 23/01/2023 01:47, NilsOla Nilsson wrote:
Possible explanation: if you have several hard links
pointing to the same file (inode) rsync will expand
those to separate files, unless you give the option -H
And you were quite right, and I apologise for missing this - I really
wasn't expecting har
On 23/01/2023 19:00, Steve Fairhead wrote:
On 22/01/2023 21:06, Steve Fairhead wrote:
After a lot of analysis, I found that all user folders (and all other
folders/partitions) were near-enough identical on both machines,
except for one - my boss's 😉 . After more analysis, I found that it
was h
On 22/01/2023 21:06, Steve Fairhead wrote:
After a lot of analysis, I found that all user folders (and all other
folders/partitions) were near-enough identical on both machines, except
for one - my boss's 😉 . After more analysis, I found that it was his
Maildir (using dovecot) that was weird:
On 23/01/2023 02:23, Todd C. Miller wrote:
After yet more testing, I did a recursive copy of the old 49 GB Maildir
to a spare folder on the same home partition on the old machine. This
came up, again, as 188 GB.
You probably copied a large number of sparse files where the holes
got expanded.
Zeljko Jovanovic said on Mon, 23 Jan 2023 01:25:56 +0100
>On 22.1.23. 22:06, Steve Fairhead wrote:
>>
>> I'm just puzzled, and clearly missing something. Can anyone
>> enlighten me as to the large (nearly 4*) discrepancy?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Steve
>
>Since you have the same result afte
On 22/01/2023 23:55, Alexis wrote:
 - Old machine: 49 GB
 - New machine: 188 GB
Figures as measured with du -sk, which I realise is sector-oriented,
but still... And yes, my boss does a *lot* of email.
i might well be barking up the wrong tree, but the first thing that
comes to mind is in
On 23/01/2023 00:37, Philip Guenther wrote:
You'll need to be specific about what rsync options you used, and
perhaps eyeball what the manpage says about them. For example, the
description of the -a option has a specific warning which seems a
plausible explanation of the expansion.
Apologies
On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 09:06:29PM +, Steve Fairhead wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I was cloning a server with rsync in preparation for a major upgrade
> (elderly OpenBSD to 7.2). I noticed that the home partition usage was a good
> deal greater on the new machine than the old (as seen by df).
>
> A
On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 21:06:29 +, Steve Fairhead wrote:
> I was cloning a server with rsync in preparation for a major upgrade
> (elderly OpenBSD to 7.2). I noticed that the home partition usage was a
> good deal greater on the new machine than the old (as seen by df).
>
> After a lot of analy
On 22.1.23. 22:06, Steve Fairhead wrote:
Hi folks,
I was cloning a server with rsync in preparation for a major upgrade (elderly
OpenBSD to 7.2). I noticed that the home partition usage was a good deal greater
on the new machine than the old (as seen by df).
After a lot of analysis, I found
On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 2:08 PM Steve Fairhead wrote:
> I was cloning a server with rsync in preparation for a major upgrade
> (elderly OpenBSD to 7.2). I noticed that the home partition usage was a
> good deal greater on the new machine than the old (as seen by df).
>
Good thing "cloning with r
Steve Fairhead writes:
- Old machine: 49 GB
- New machine: 188 GB
Figures as measured with du -sk, which I realise is
sector-oriented,
but still... And yes, my boss does a *lot* of email.
i might well be barking up the wrong tree, but the first thing
that comes to mind is inode usag
Hi folks,
I was cloning a server with rsync in preparation for a major upgrade
(elderly OpenBSD to 7.2). I noticed that the home partition usage was a
good deal greater on the new machine than the old (as seen by df).
After a lot of analysis, I found that all user folders (and all other
fold
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