Subject: Re: folder size mis-match
From: Robert Fout (rfout@mahi.damien.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2000 - 10:32:30 MST
Ah.. that first concern is not an issue, because I am looking at only
./html, not the current directory (i.e. cgi-bin is not in the html folder,
and neither is lost+found in the backup html folder, the size I'm looking at
is JUST the html folder, not anything on the same level with it). But the
second observation is valid.. heheh, upon closer inspection of the two
directories... I found out that indeed there are more files in the backup
copy than the original copy. oops.
Thanks for the input,
Bob
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> From: Jim Cole <greyleaf@yggdrasill.net>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 03:14:46 -0700 (MST)
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: folder size mis-match
>
> 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
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------------
>> "The knack to flying is learning how to
>> throw yourself at the ground and miss."
>>
>>> From "Life the Universe and Everything"
>> by Douglas Adams
>>
>> Robert Fout
>> MacOS Guru and MkLinux User
>> rfout@damien.edu
>> http://osx.damien.edu/rfout/
>> ICQ# 48433406
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> 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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