Re: ext2 fs issues when copying between disks

2000-01-30 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Colin Watson wrote: > >I suspect this problem has something to do with 'sparse files'. > > Right idea, though not the usual terminology so documentation searches > might have failed you (that reminded me of sparse superblocks or perhaps > f

Re: ext2 fs issues when copying between disks

2000-01-30 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Noah L. Meyerhans) wrote: >I just moved /usr/ to a new partition. Everything went smoothly, and the >new /usr is mounted. However, disk usage is dramatically higher on the >new /usr than on the old one. I have confirmed (using 'find . -xtype f >- -exec cmp {} /mnt/tmp/{} \;')

ext2 fs issues when copying between disks

2000-01-30 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I just moved /usr/ to a new partition. Everything went smoothly, and the new /usr is mounted. However, disk usage is dramatically higher on the new /usr than on the old one. I have confirmed (using 'find . -xtype f - -exec cmp {} /mnt/tmp/{} \;') that the dire