Subject: Re: folder size mis-match
From: Jim Cole (greyleaf@yggdrasill.net)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2000 - 03:14:46 MST
I took another look at the outputs of du, and the primary reason that
you are seeing different sizes is that there is different stuff in the
two directories ;) There is a cgi-bin in one, but not the other. There
is a lost+found in the other, but not in the one. There is an icons
directory that is only in one tree. The contents of ./html/me is not
the same.
Also, for doing backups, you should probably be using tar rather than
cp -r.
Jim
Robert Fout's bits of Thu, 17 Feb 2000 translated to:
>nope, don't have any sym links, and du -L didn't show anything different
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>> From: Jim Cole <greyleaf@yggdrasill.net>
>> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 21:11:27 -0700 (MST)
>> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>> Subject: Re: folder size mis-match
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>> Hi. Do you by chance have any symbolic links in the original directory?
>> I believe cp -r will follow links and copy what is pointed to while, by
>> default, du will only count the size of the link, not the file it points
>> to. What happens if you give du the -L option?
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> Robert Fout's bits of Thu, 17 Feb 2000 translated to:
>>
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> I serve my own website on an internal home network, to preview my pages
>>> before I publish them on the net for all to see. Since my MkLinux server's
>>> only task is to do this, I have a separate partition set aside to backup the
>>> /home/httpd/html directory. I wanted to make sure that everything was backed
>>> up perfectly, and I used du to determine how much data was in each directory
>>> (both the backup directory, and the original directory). After checking
>>> several times, the backup directory seems to be greater in size than the
>>> original directory (see below). Can anyone explain why this is?
>>>
>>> I use this command to back stuff up: cp -r /home/httpd/html /webpage_backup
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