Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:35:27 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Modulok <modulok@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File size discrepancies Message-ID: <C11F1A8C-3B85-4367-99B5-25451661F507@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <64c038660709281127j1df4835bxcbfe4495600fd6d7@mail.gmail.com> References: <64c038660709281127j1df4835bxcbfe4495600fd6d7@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sep 28, 2007, at 11:27 AM, Modulok wrote: > I have a file hierarchy of about 18GiB which was copied from a UFS 2 > file system one hard disk to a UFS 2 file system on a gmirror array. > The size of the two hierarchies differ by 12 bytes according to du(1). > No errors were reported by cp(1) during the copy operation. cp may copy through symlinks-- it's not the ideal tool for replicating very large hierarchies if they contain links. tar, rsync, dump/restore might be better choices, and you could use rsync - acv to check for and correct any differences. -- -Chuck
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