Thank you Malcolm I'll try this one...
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 17:59, Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 23:27, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > > Hello > > > > I'm using rsync to sort of mirror two 40GB disks (once a day). > > All partitions work as expected, but root is weird (and as you can see > > below, I sort of made it too small). > > > > I use this command: > > /usr/local/bin/rsync -ax --delete / /mirror/rootfs > > > > But this is what I'm getting: > > df -m > > Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > /dev/ad0s1a 154 71 70 51% / > > /dev/ad1s1a 154 138 4 97% /mirror/rootfs > > > > So, there's a 67 MB difference between both. > > I started out wite a cleanly formatted mirror (UFS2) > > > > My system is FreeBSD 5.0 RELEASE-p11 > > > > Thanks for any help > > > > Guy > > I expect rsync does not recognise hard linked files as such and makes > separate images of each directory link. Looking through /stand on my 4.8 > system I see that this would create about 60Mb extra. > > You might do better with dump and restore: > # cd /miiror/rootfs > # dump -0 -a -f - / | restore -r -f - > > Malcolm > > > > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
