[plug] scp

[W.Kenworthy]

lots of very small files on a space inefficient filesystem like ext2 -
depends on how you are totalling the space consumed on each weather this
will show or not (gentoo's portage tree is a common culprit for using
space like this!)

sparse files

BillK

On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 10:14 +0900, rennie wrote:
> Why would ...
> 
> # scp -pr -P 13713 /home/rennie/ root at 10.1.1.8:/home/LaptopBackup
> 
> ... create +100GB on from c.a. 10GB of data?
> 
> Have I missed some thing?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Rennie
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