On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:27:42AM -0600, Bryan Penney wrote: > On the status page the pool information is reported as > > Pool is 227.53GB comprising 1157013 files and 4369 directories (as of > 2/28 08:33), > > When I run df -h /dev/sda3 (the raid backuppc is on) I get: > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda3 1.9T 222G 1.6T 12% /var/lib/backuppc > > This means that the status page reports the pool file being 5G larger > than the space being used on the drive. This backup machine's pool was > originally rsync'd off of our old backupPC machine. > > This could mean that I am missing some data, some hard links are double > counted, or that backupPC is doing some sort of rounding. > > Any ideas which one(s) are more likely?
What filesystem is your pool on? I know at least reiserfs, by default, stores the tails of files in the tree, although du will still report a full block being used for the file. On my system, backuppc reports that the pool is 16.19GB and df reports 15G. It just means the filesystem is efficient. Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
