Re: Weirdness with du/df/my brain (latter more likely)

On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 2:08 PM Steve Fairhead <steve@fivetrees.com> 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 rsync" has a specific meani...

$ rsync --help | grep -c ^-
144
$

oh, hmm.

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.


Philip Guenther