On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 05:01:29PM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: > 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? > The block size can be checked by the tune2fs command: tune2fs -l /dev/hdax It is set when the disk is formatted by the mke2fs command when the partition is formatted. Sounds like your block sizes are different. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
