rsyncing 79gb of data to 250gb drive

[James Wilkinson]

Michael Mansour wrote:
> I have an issue which I can't seem to figure out.
> 
> I bought a 250Gb Maxtor Maxline Plus ATA133 drive,
> plugged it into a server, formatted it using:
> 
> # e2fsck -m 0 -j -b 1024 /dev/hdc1
> 
> I made the partition a Linux partition id 82.
> 
> After format, 241Gb free space is recognised.
> 
> I have 80Gb of data on another drive in the system
> that I wish to backup onto this drive. So after
> rsyncing the drives contents from the 79Gb (which is
> on a stripe) to the maxtor 250Gb drive, the following
> is the result:
> 
> /dev/md6              85419328  79573952   1506236 
> 99% /data01
> /dev/hdc1            241201359 123508888 117692471 
> 52% /data02
> 
> 123Gb used??? this is what is confusing me, why?
> 
<snip>
> I thought maybe the rsync was following symlinks
> (which I'm sure there are none), but by default the

What about hard links? Try
find /data01 -type f -links +1 -ls | sort
to see if there are any.

HTH,

James.
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