June 26, 201610 yr I replaced my cache drive (btrfs) by writing its contents to the array (an xfs drive) and then back to the new ssd (btrfs). Now the files take up significantly more space. I am pretty sure it is all of the small files, like plex appdata, that is now consuming more space. Is there any way to remedy this? It is a difference of about 40gb, so it is quite significant.
June 26, 201610 yr I replaced my cache drive (btrfs) by writing its contents to the array (an xfs drive) and then back to the new ssd (btrfs). Now the files take up significantly more space. I am pretty sure it is all of the small files, like plex appdata, that is now consuming more space. Is there any way to remedy this? It is a difference of about 40gb, so it is quite significant. How did you copy the files? Not an expert on symlinks (read that as I know nothing), but plex makes very extensive use of them, and I suppose they could have gotten resolved to actual files.
June 26, 201610 yr Author How did you copy the files? Not an expert on symlinks (read that as I know nothing), but plex makes very extensive use of them, and I suppose they could have gotten resolved to actual files. I used midnight commander. Could it also be that my previous SSD was not counting "free" space in the docker image and VMs, even if it was allocated? Perhaps that is the size difference I am seeing. I just know when I check the properties on a folder with many small files it will have a "size on disk" that is significantly larger than the sum of the files, so I figured transferring between the filesystems may have changed the size allocated to them.
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