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 after copying the files on the same
>machine, I would say that some of them are sparse, and you didn't
>preserve that.
>
>For openrsync, I searched the man page, and didn't find any mention of
>"sparse", so I don't know how it handles them.
>
>If you are using "original" rsync, try with -S flag.
Yes.
Other similar things to look at are hard links (-H), various symlink
options, --one-file-system (I know df doesn't follow symlinked mounts),
etc.
SteveT
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