big backup file

[Karl F. Larsen]

Chris wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:16:38 -0700
> "Karl F. Larsen" <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Johnneylee Rollins wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Karl F. Larsen
>>> <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>        Yesterday I backed up with rsync -avz my 9.4 Ubuntu which I
>>>> expected to be about 25 GB; lots of pictures ect. I looked at
>>>> the backup hard drive and Gparted says the backup is 147GB!
>>>> Almost the entire hard drive.
> 
> Karl - I'm wondering. Why would you use Gparted? Unless Gparted shows
> more then disk drives and partitions.
> 
> Are you really trying to see how large a drive/partition is or are you
> trying to view the size of the possible archive itself?
> 
> 
	Well I was expecting to see about a 25GB archive. Instead I 
see a 147 GB archive. There needs to be a reason.

73 Karl


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