Re: rsync with --link-dest=DIR

2010-04-18 Thread Martin
Hi, thank you for your feedback. >> The way to troubleshoot this is to pass -i to see why rsync decided not >> to hard-link the files. In the meantime I had this idea myself when saerching the web for helpful information. I was just going to post the result. For some reason the group of many o

Re: rsync with --link-dest=DIR

2010-04-18 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 16:57 +0200, Martin wrote: > When using --link-dest=DIR with DIR on the startup volume everything > works fine. > If DIR is a volume on an external drive many files are copied instead > of creating hard links. > hardlinks are create e.g. fom .jpg files and from .rtf files but

rsync with --link-dest=DIR

2010-04-18 Thread Martin
Hi, i use rsync version 2.6.9 protocol version 29 on Mac OS X 10.6.3 and expierienced the following problem. When using --link-dest=DIR with DIR on the startup volume everything works fine. If DIR is a volume on an external drive many files are copied instead of creating hard links. hardlinks