rsync strange behaviour

[pagani laurent]

> My first guess would be that some items on your internal drive are hardlinked, and that when you rsync, those items are being created on the external drive as separate files with each copy taking up space. And I can confirm by inspection that there are many hardlinked items inside the Xcode 9 app, for example. There's a flag you can supply to rsync ("--hard-links") to tell it to detect and recreate hard links on the destination drive, which should eliminate this reason for the size difference.


Did not work. I erased Xcode again and rsync’ed it with —hard-links. Size remains the same. 12 Gb instead of 7.8 local.


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