[COLUG] rsync question

[Stephen Potter]

<quote who="Scott Merrill">
> I executed
>    rsync -vaHWx / /mnt
> to copy all the data from the root partition (the only partition, other
> than /boot, which was on a different physical drive).

Database files or core files (ie sparse files)?  Sometimes when you copy
them, unless you specify -S, they will null fill and take up their entire
actual disk space, rather than just their used disk space.

-spp
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