On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 14:58:30 +1200 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All the Gentooists use it all the time to keep the list of packages up to > date. It comes from the Samba stable, so it works very well indeed, but needs > a huge amount of free disc space to use as a work area. It uses double the space that the file takes up, as it makes a temporary file while it is rsyncing, then changes the name of the temp file at the end. So if you are rsyncing an iso, just before it ends you will have the original file plus the temp file, ie around 1.3G. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
