big backup file-Solved

Karl F. Larsen klarsen1 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 16 16:08:17 UTC 2010


Steve Flynn wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:49 AM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>        I wrote a new partition table Chris and am about to see if
>> that helps. The new partition is 27.5 GB so will know soon...
> 
> 
> Why don't you just provide us with the command you used and a
> directory listing showing the archive file ("ls -als *" when you're
> cd'd into the directory you wrote the archive to)?

karl at Jaunty:/media/disk$ ls -als *
backup94:
total 92
  4 drwxr-xr-x  21 karl karl  4096 2009-12-09 08:13 .
  4 drwxr-xr-x   4 karl root  4096 2010-01-16 07:15 ..
  4 drwxr-xr-x   2 karl karl  4096 2009-09-17 06:15 bin
  4 drwxr-xr-x   3 karl karl  4096 2009-12-09 08:14 boot
  0 lrwxrwxrwx   1 karl karl    11 2009-09-17 05:05 cdrom -> 
media/cdrom
  4 drwxr-xr-x   2 karl karl  4096 2010-01-16 07:14 dev
12 drwxr-xr-x 137 karl karl 12288 2010-01-16 07:14 etc
  4 drwxr-xr-x   7 karl karl  4096 2009-11-13 16:28 home
  0 lrwxrwxrwx   1 karl karl    33 2009-12-09 08:13 initrd.img 
-> boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-17-generic
  0 lrwxrwxrwx   1 karl karl    33 2009-11-01 14:28 
initrd.img.old -> boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-16-generic
  4 drwxr-xr-x  19 karl karl  4096 2010-01-14 07:16 lib
  4 drwx------   2 karl karl  4096 2009-09-17 05:05 lost+found
  4 drwsr-xr-t   2 karl karl  4096 2010-01-16 07:14 media
  4 drwxr-xr-x   2 karl karl  4096 2009-03-05 10:44 mnt
  4 drwxr-xr-x   2 karl karl  4096 2009-03-23 17:55 opt
  4 dr-xr-xr-x   2 karl karl  4096 2010-01-16 00:11 proc
  4 drwx------   2 karl karl  4096 2010-01-15 17:20 root
  4 drwxr-xr-x   2 karl karl  4096 2009-12-09 08:13 sbin
  4 drwxr-xr-x   2 karl karl  4096 2009-03-06 09:21 selinux
  4 drwxr-xr-x   2 karl karl  4096 2009-03-23 17:55 srv
  4 drwxr-xr-x   2 karl karl  4096 2010-01-16 00:11 sys
  4 drwxrwxrwt   2 karl karl  4096 2010-01-16 07:12 tmp
  4 drwxr-xr-x  12 karl karl  4096 2009-10-06 12:47 usr
  4 drwxr-xr-x  15 karl karl  4096 2009-03-23 18:13 var
  0 lrwxrwxrwx   1 karl karl    30 2009-12-09 08:13 vmlinuz -> 
boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-17-generic
  0 lrwxrwxrwx   1 karl karl    30 2009-11-01 14:28 
vmlinuz.old -> boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-16-generic

test:
total 8
4 drwxr-xr-x 2 karl karl 4096 2010-01-16 07:01 .
4 drwxr-xr-x 4 karl root 4096 2010-01-16 07:15 ..
karl at Jaunty:/media/disk$




> 
> You're dicking around with partition tables, which frankly I doubt you
> fully understand and all the while people are asking for more
> information to help you work out what has happened yet you persist in
> ignoring their requests whilst you do your best to shaft another
> hard-drive.
> 
> By the way, Gparted works perfectly well over USB connected drives -
> the underlying BIOS functions mean it doesn't care if the drive you're
> inspecting is on an IDE, SCSI, USB or SATA connection.

	Now with the new rebuilt portable hard drive, Gparted gets:

	Size 149.05
	Used 30.19
	Unused 118.86

What I backed up was my Ubuntu 9.04 which is 3.18 GB without 
/home and /home is 24.84 for a total of 25.02GB.

With du -hs I get 28GB

	As I understand it rsync stores a file somewhere in the 
backup that tells it what it has, and so when you do the next 
backup it only adds new files. This might be quite big.


	In summary I must have had a problem with my portable HD. It 
is fixed now. By the way no Windows file system will work over 
a big partition, but ext3 is quite happy.

73 Karl
	

> 


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