rsync counts not identical

[David Mehler]

Hello,

Thanks, I did a du -sh on both source and destination directories.

Thanks.
Dave.


On 5/30/20, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> On Sat, 30 May 2020 21:11:49 -0400, David Mehler wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm using rsync on two FreeBSD servers to send files and subfolders
>> from one to the other. The command I'm using is rsync -avz
>> /path/of/first/system/folder/ /path/of/second/system/folder/
>>
>> The first set of files/folders is on a ufs disk, the second on a zfs
>> volume, differences in sizes are 13 to 20MB differences between the
>> source and destination. Is this normal?
>
> How have the sizes been measured?
>
> Is it possible that some symlinks or hardlinks have been
> "resolved" in some undesired way?
>
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>
> PS.
>
> Technically correct term is "directory"; a "folder" is the name
> of an icon representing (!) a directory. ;-)
>
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