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

• bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨17⁩ ⁨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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