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

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. If you use rsync with the -S flag (or use tar) you
> should end up with a similar disk usage on the new machine.
>

I did actually consider this. I had tried (after deleting the copy):

rsync -avzS

No change - still 188 GB. So I've just tried (again after deleting the
copy):

rsync -avS

... in case using compression somehow negated the sparse files setting.
Again no change - still 188 GB.

Mysterious.

Thanks,

Steve
aka Baffled of Bursledon

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