I just added a new disk drive to my computer and created a partition on it that's roughly the same size as my /home partition (~8G). Then I said: cd /home find . -print | cpio -pdvum /home2 When it was all done the /home2 directory was 400Meg bigger. So I thought to myself. "Hmm. Sparse files are to blame." So I did a man on cpio and found the --sparse option. So I ran it again and this time I get the following result: 513 > df /home /home2 Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdc1 8.4G 2.9G 5.2G 36% /home /dev/sdb1 8.4G 2.7G 5.3G 34% /home2 514 > I'm off by 200Meg. Anyone have any idea what's going on here? They're both ext3 and created with standard nofrill commands. Anyone? TIA -- -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have - -happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ -Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- -individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
