[csw-users] Why this strange behavior coping /opt/csw

[Harry Putnam]

Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org>
writes:

> Hi
>
> Am 29.08.2013 um 22:17 schrieb Harry Putnam
> <reader at newsguy.com>:
>
>> Running Openindiana (solaris branch) and using some csw tools too.
>> 
>> csw stuff is installed at /opt/csw.  Since my root pool space is
>> shrinking I thought I might move all of /opt off on a different zpool
>> on a different disc.  Then just put a symlink in place at /opt.
>> 
>> I decided to do it with rsync and after rsyncing everything to /t1/opt
>> (rsync -avv /opt/ /t1/opt/ )
>> 
>> But when I check the result with du I find a huge difference in size.
>> 
>> the original /opt shows 355 MB but the copied opt shows only 173 MB
>> 
>> I thing tried with copy  using gnu copy  and did 'cp -a' /opt/t1/
>> 
>> Again it comes up with the big difference in size..
>
> Compression? :-)
>
> Best regards -- Dago

Yes, of course, my blunder.  Sorry for the line noise