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

On 22/01/2023 21:06, Steve Fairhead wrote:
> After a lot of analysis, I found that all user folders (and all other
> folders/partitions) were near-enough identical on both machines, except
> for one - my boss's 😉 . After more analysis, I found that it was his
> Maildir (using dovecot) that was weird:
>
>   - Old machine: 49 GB
>   - New machine: 188 GB

Jan Stary solved it by asking "Have you tried -H to preserve
hardlinks?". And no, I hadn't. Wasn't expecting any in a Maildir. I've
learned something ;) - wahay!

New machine is now 49 GB too. And I've tweaked my rsync script to no
longer use "-avz --delete", but "-avSH --delete".

Thanks, Jan!

Steve

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