-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2008-04-14 at 15:40 +0200, Philippe Landau wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2008-04-14 at 14:05 +0200, Philippe Landau wrote:
In the Linux GUI, lack of options during copy and move made me lose countless hours. Which GUI? There are many. OpenSuse 10.3 KDE 3.5
I assume you use konqueror, then. Very good program, but has some drawbacks. I prefer midnight commander, while not strictly "gui" it is a very good program. Thunar could be another possibility.
This makes resuming the task unnecessarily difficult. Don't use a GUI. Use rsync. Interesting. Simple users still stuck then.
Choose your poison :-P You can select ease of use, or real power.
Now i want to copy my home folder to a backup disk, but copy says the 600MB are really 67GB ... Why could that be ? Maybe you have sparse files. Do you use [ae]mule o equivalent? Yes. How can i track these sparse files down ?
I'm not sure how exactly to know if a file is sparse or not, but one symptom is that the sum of sizes is greater than the available space, or the space reported by "du" or "df". Mind: if you ares using p2p, those sparse files will become "filled", when they are finally downloaded. Then they will really use the space they report... even filling the disk completely. There was a thread recently where this was mentioned too, with the proper options to be given to rsync. This tool is perfect for maintaining a backup copy on another disk; the second time you copy it will copy only whatever is different, saving a lot of time (specially if the backup is an external disk on USB). - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIA3C/tTMYHG2NR9URAsWRAJ4tanOe21j8g49CciranJZ4azSRSwCfZAsF yb1jpABD0EFpz2PT7SJC0as= =3waW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org