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

Let’s back up and check your assumptions: How did you check that the disk usage of your home folder is 385GiB and that there are 780GiB of free disk space on your external drive?

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sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Using du -sh --apparent-size /home/sbird returns 382G, with external SSD 129G (as expected)

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- Dirtboy@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Is your external SSD partitioned into multiple drives? Are you saying that your SSD is reported to be 129GB by the OS?
  
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  - sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    129G used (as in the files that were there before rsync)
    
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sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Checking “properties” using Dolphin. Could that be incorrect?

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- Dirtboy@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Does that include hidden folders?
  
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- bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’d say you can trust that.
  
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