Lack of free drive space


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Hi all,

 

So i don't use parity and used rsync to copy the data from my old  500gb samsung to a 1tb ssd.

 

The new crucial MX500 1tb was formatted and showed no usage before i started the copy. The 1tb drive was mounted in unassigned devices to copy the data from the array and i could already see it was showing more storage was used. Moved the drive into the array as i thought it must of been an error but still shows its used 149gb more. 

 

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I've never used compression so i'm assuming it's not that.

 

Any ideas?

 

 

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8 minutes ago, gareth_iowc said:

i am unfamiliar with a sparse flag. would this be ok to use on all data that is being copied across?

It only helps with files that contain large sections that are all zeroes so does not do anything useful with media files.   It should not hurt, though, to always provide the sparse flag as on files that do not contain the zero sections all you do is end up consuming a little more CPU during the copy process.

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