ok, so this is not entirely an rsync question. but, it seems the 'crowd' most familiar w/ hard-linking are the rsync crowd. so ...
i'm doing rsync + incremental backups to a local drive. the incremental steps, currently, use the rsync REMOTE_DIR OLD_DIR ... time passes ... cp -al OLD_DIR NEW_DIR rsync REMOTE_DIR NEW_DIR approach. all works great. i'd *like* to be able to check my LOCAL (destination) drive for sufficient space b4 doing a backup. question: how does one check "real" available freespace? "real", as in not double-counted hardlinked/shared files. fwiw, my LOCAL drive is on an osx/hfs+ box (i actually think this may make a difference, esp wrt linux ...). 'native' osx utils (finder, diskutil, etc) report the apparent usage -- not the acutal, hardlinked/shared usage. as a result, i can't readily check for space. what do folks here do? thanks. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
