Yesterday, dan wrote: > most of the files that are in the backup you want to delete may be in the > pool and still depend on another more recent backup. the fact that backuppc > shows a backup as 2Gb or whatever doesnt mean that it is occupying 2Gb on > disk, just that the files WOULD be 2Gb if they were in some other > directory. the pooling of files in backuppc could cause you to have almost > the same disk usage even after deleting 10Gb worth of backups because > really, it would just delete a bunch of hard links which are pretty small. > on most filesystems they are the size of 1 cluster which is often 4k. >
Actually, since hard links are just entries in an existing directory, each individual hard link takes up effectively no space--although like with any directory, enough entries will cause it to use more space. Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
