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

• bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m sorry. I was stupid. If you had duplicates due to a file system loop or symlinks, they would all be under different names. So you wouldn’t be able to find them with this method.

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  • sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨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 ⁨13⁩ ⁨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 ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ok then, that makes sense

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