I wonder if anyone can shed light on the following.
Background:
My desktop system has a 2 TB hard drive installed that df says is 85%
full. For several years I've had a 2 TB USB hard drive I've used for
backup. My sophisticated backup method employs "cp -a -R" and whatever
needs to follow that. (<== That's a joke about it being
sophisticated.) It has worked fine for me.
Since the 2 TB USB drive is also pretty full, I recently ordered a 5
TB drive. When I plugged it in and tried to mount it, mount identified
it as
/dev/sdf1 on /run/media/howard/Elements type fuseblk [etc.]
To my surprise I could write to and read from that filesystem type, so
I didn't reformat it as ext3, chiefly because I thought maybe that way
it would be compatible with a Windows 7 laptop I inherited when a
friend died.
At that point I did the following in a shell window:
su root
cd /
cp -a -R * /run/media/howard/Elements
The intended effect was to copy all of the 2 TB drive in the desktop
system to the 5 TB USB drive. About 36 hrs. later it was still
running, with only about 500 GB of space left on the 5 TB USB drive.
So, obviously, it copied something waaaay more than once.
l /run/media/howard/Elements doesn't show anything unexpected. So does
anyone have any idea what happened?
Thanks.
Howard
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