Re: Various Questions

[Carl Cook <CACook@quantum-sci.com>]

I'd rather not do the copy again unless necessary, as it took a day.

Directories look identical, but who knows?  I'm going to try and figure out how to do a file-by-file crc check, for peace of mind.


On Sat 08 January 2011 17:26:25 Freddie Cash wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Carl Cook <CACook@quantum-sci.com> wrote:
> >
> > In addition to the questions below, if anyone has a chance could you advise on why my destination drive has more data  than the source after this command:
> > # rsync --hard-links --delete --inplace --archive --numeric-ids /media/disk/* /home
> > sending incremental file list
> 
> What happens if you delete /home, then run the command again, but
> without the *?  You generally don't use wildcards for the source or
> destination when using rsync.  You just tell it which directory to
> start in.
> 
> If you do an "ls /home" and "ls /media/disk" are they different?
> 
>