Comment on When using rsync to backup my /home folder to an external 1TB SSD, I run out of space, how??

• sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  running du command with --count-links as suggested by another user returns 384G (so that isn’t the problem it seems)

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  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    du --count-links only counts hard-linked files multiple types. I assumed you had a symlink loop that rsync would have tried to unwrap.

    For instance:

    $ ls -l
    foo -> ./bar
    bar -> ./foo
    

    If you tried to rsync that, you’d end up with the directories foo, bar, foo/bar, bar/foo, foo/bar/foo, bar/foo/bar, foo/bar/foo/bar, ad infinitum, in the target directory.

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• sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ok then, that makes sense

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