big backup file

[Karl F. Larsen]

Chris wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:34:11 -0700
> "Karl F. Larsen" <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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!NautilusAlmost 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
>>
>>
> 
> Curious. If you are using Gnome, try using Nautilus and is possible, go
> to the 147 gig partition/drive and see if your archive is there. If so,
> how large is it?
> 
> I could be wrong (so forgive me if I am) but I suspect your using the
> incorrect tool for what you want to do.
> 
> Possible?
> 
	Chris I begin to think Gparted can't work through the USB 
port to the backup hard drive. I did some things that should 
have worked but they didn't.

	So will try mkdir and fdisk to do what I want and see if they 
are more successful.

73 Karl


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