Sorry I forgot to add that there are no symlinks in the directories being rsync'ed so that is not an issue here.
Best wishes, Ranjan On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 11:29:07 -0500 Ranjan Maitra <maitra.mbox.igno...@inbox.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am at my wits end with this, so I thought I would post here to see if > anyone had any thoughts. The only connection with F21 (updated in all > installed components) is that everything is on a F21 machine. > > So, I have a cifs share mounted onto /mnt/space using the usual mount.cifs > option with sec=ntlmv2. > > I wanted to copy the following directory (kmeans) onto /mnt/space -- because > I wanted to preserve permissions and structure, I tried rsync: > > > rsync -avSz --delete --progress kmeans/. /mnt/space/kmnsinit > > So here is the problem: > > The original directory has size: > > % du -sh kmeans > 156G kmeans > > But the copying has continued on and on with no sign of ending (and we are at > 378GB). > > % du -sh kmnsinit > 378G kmnsinit > > I also tried without the . after the kmeans/ in the rsync command (though not > sure why it would matter) but to no avail. (Same story, and note that it is > not ending at 378G but going on, and chances are will go on for some more.) > > Is it possible that since all things Windoze are bad, the cifs puts stuff all > over the place and represents large files differently. Is it possible to > however make it behave? > > Does anyone have an explanation and solution for the above? I apologize again > for the largely OT nature of this post. > > Many thanks and best wishes, > Ranjan > > > > > -- > Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set to be deleted on > receipt. Please respond to the mailing list if appropriate. For those needing > to send personal or professional e-mail, please use appropriate addresses. > > ____________________________________________________________ > FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop! > Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/earth > > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set to be deleted on receipt. Please respond to the mailing list if appropriate. For those needing to send personal or professional e-mail, please use appropriate addresses. ____________________________________________________________ Can't remember your password? Do you need a strong and secure password? Use Password manager! It stores your passwords & protects your account. Check it out at http://mysecurelogon.com/manager -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
