SlurpingPus

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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??⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, that’s not what I meant. If you have directories with torrents or VMs, du might report different size for those directories on the source and target disks. Then it might’ve meant that those are the culprits.

  With just the source disk, you can check du -hsc dirname versus du -hsc --apparent-size dirname to check if the disk space used is much smaller than the ‘apparent size’, which would mean there are sparse files in the directory, i.e. not fully written to disk. rsync would copy those files to full ‘apparent size’.

  As mentioned elsewhere, btrfs might also save space on the source disk by not writing duplicate files multiple times — but idk if du would report that, since it’s specific to btrfs internals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When using rsync to backup my /home folder to an external 1TB SSD, I run out of space, how??⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, I knew the mention of btrfs heebied my jeebies a little, but forgot about the CoW thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When using rsync to backup my /home folder to an external 1TB SSD, I run out of space, how??⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that would do it. If OP has such symlinks, they probably need to add an exception for rsync.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When using rsync to backup my /home folder to an external 1TB SSD, I run out of space, how??⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  By the way, do you have lots of torrents downloaded or large virtual machines installed? Both torrent clients and virtual machine managers use ‘sparse files’ to save space until you actually download the whole torrent or write a lot to the VM’s disk. Those files would be copied at full size to exFAT.

  If you have folders with such content, you can use e.g. Double Commander to check the actual used size of those folders (with ctrl-L in Doublecmd). Idk which terminal utils might give you those numbers in place, but aforementioned ncdu can calculate them and present as a tree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When using rsync to backup my /home folder to an external 1TB SSD, I run out of space, how??⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  For a typical user, hard links would be mostly employed by git for its internal structures, and it’s difficult to accumulate over 300 GB of git repos.

  Sparse files would actually be more believable, since they’re used by both torrent clients and virtual machines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When using rsync to backup my /home folder to an external 1TB SSD, I run out of space, how??⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Means a file that’s 512 bytes in size will take 512 bytes on the external disk, but at minimum 4 KB on the internal one. If it were the other way around, that would partially explain the difference in space used.

  In any case, I doubt it that the block sizes would make so much difference in typical usage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When using rsync to backup my /home folder to an external 1TB SSD, I run out of space, how??⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The simplest explanation for the size difference could be if you have a symlink in your home folder pointing outside it. Idk if rsync traverses symlinks and filesystems by default, i.e. goes into linked folders instead of just copying the link, but you might want to check that. Note also that exFAT doesn’t support symlinks, dunno what rsync does in that case.

  It would be useful to run ls -R >file.txt in both the source and target directories and diff the files to see if the directory structure changed. (The -l option would report many changes, since exFAT doesn’t support Unix permissions either.)

  As others mentioned, if you have hardlinks in the source, they could be copied multiple times to the target, particularly since exFAT, again, doesn’t have hardlinks. But the primary source of hardlinks in normal usage would probably be git, which employs them to compact its structures, and I doubt it that you have >300 GB of git repositories.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sleep well⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen stuff on r/embroidery that’s difficult to believe. E.g.:

  ‘Well, I have finished my new embroidery, now you can admire it’

  ‘I can finally reveal my latest embroidery project’

  ‘I tell my gran I’m into embroidery and she casually drops she used to be a master’

  ‘Kiwi based on old online illustration’

  ‘Embroidery or cake’

  ‘Kimberly the tortoise’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a culture/country that doesn't have sarcasm in its language?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole StandupComedy has a hold on me like no TikTok could.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a culture/country that doesn't have sarcasm in its language?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘How East Coasters Talk’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a culture/country that doesn't have sarcasm in its language?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who will live and die by snark in my online comments, I agree. However, annoyingly, I’ve had a noticeably higher proportion of replies on Lemmy from people who don’t know how sarcasm works, than on Reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beyond fucked up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You might mean the case of Florence Horner, kidnapped in 1948 by Frank La Salle. It’s apparently directly referenced in ‘Lolita’. However, Wikipedia mentions that Nabokov was already working on ‘Lolita’ in '47, under its original title ‘The Kingdom by the Sea’; and he had similar themes in previous works, going back to a poem and a novella from '28 and '39 respectively.

  Importantly, ‘Lolita’ has a few brief allusions to Lewis Carroll, and multiple to Charlie Chaplin’s relationship with Lita Grey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a culture/country that doesn't have sarcasm in its language?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How Eastern Europeans see USians:

  😁°º︎○︎( please help )

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beyond fucked up⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, I’ve missed the fact that the image is pretty low-res. My condolences for reading that blurry mess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beyond fucked up⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  PSA: if you use Google to search by an image, it lets you select and copy the text. On Android it can be done by sharing to ‘Lens’, or going through the Google app. (Idk about iPhones.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beyond fucked up⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s very clear that Nabokov despised and mocked most of his protagonists, with only a couple exceptions. Humbert is a loser with nothing interesting about him.

  Still some people somehow manage to interpret the book as a ‘defense’ of Humbert of sorts, or a fantasy. Seen this on Reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beyond fucked up⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Evie Magazine is an American alt-right women’s magazine. Evie has published conspiracy theories, pseudoscientific content and anti-vaccine misinformation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Website⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  FrontPage was initially created by Cambridge, Massachusetts company Vermeer Technologies, Incorporated, evidence of which can be easily spotted in file names and directories prefixed vti in web sites created using FrontPage. Vermeer was acquired by Microsoft in January 1996 specifically so that Microsoft could add FrontPage to its product line-up, allowing them to gain an advantage in the browser wars, as FrontPage was designed to create web pages for their own browser, Internet Explorer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The bushes were people 🤯⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As an outsider, I’m impressed that the NFL somehow managed to troll people with the show for two years in a row. It would be super easy to choose someone inoffensive. Didn’t expect the handegg organization, of all people, to be leftist in any way (by US standards).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JD Vance visits Milan, Italy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  While this is going on, Vance actually travels by subway, donning fake mustache, beard and sunglasses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where can I get a set of furry train tracks to complete the scene?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I know of ‘R&B’ via video games that were made in the nineties.

  Apparently also comic books were made in the eighties, ending idk when, then from 2013 to 2014 and 2017 to 2020. Plus there was an animated reboot ‘The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show’ on Netflix in 2015-2017, and another one ‘The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle’ on Amazon in 2018.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is all smiles⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps this is them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BASED?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m planning on living forever, and it’s working quite well so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BASED?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A smartphone is one of the better investments for a homeless person, because the web allows finding help and resources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hrmmm⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I understand, typically audio compression has about 20 ms of ramp-up, though it can be theoretically lowered about ten times — not sure how well it would work in that case, though. Consider that aural reaction speed is apparently way better than visual, wherein the latter is on the order of 200 ms. As is confirmed by musicians hearing a lag of around 15 ms. This leads me to believe that human hearing would probably pick up the shots sound before noise cancellation kicks in, otherwise the cancellation is too sensitive for anything else to be heard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Save as PDF⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It was like that back in the eighties, until the manufacturers decided to save on the chips by moving functionality into the drivers. Which was basically the start of everyone’s problems with printers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Start-up idea⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean that you should probably at least deal with the plug, if you ever use that thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  .world is nevertheless plastered with US politics, even the neutrally-named ‘politics’ and ‘news’ communities are in fact about the US. I wouldn’t be surprised if the admins are in the US, just hosting the site in Europe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Important Announcement⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  She was asked in an inteview, “are you in Hamas?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Start-up idea⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A plug is probably the easiest thing to replace on an appliance.