When running

rsync -Paz /home/sbird "/run/media/sbird/My Passport/sbird"

As told by someone, I run into a ran out of storage error midway. Why is this? My disk usage is about 385 GiB for my home folder, and there is at least 800 GiB of space in the external SSD (which already has stuff like photos and documents). Does rsync make doubly copies of it or something? That would be kind of silly. Or is it some other issue?

Note that the SSD is from a reputable brand (Western Digital) so it is unlikely that it is reporting a fake amount of storage.

  • confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 hours ago

    Does your terminal have a scroll back limit? You may need to change that setting if there is a limit.

    That will depend on which terminal you are using and it may have a different name so I can’t really help more with this specific issue. You’ll have to search that up based on the terminal you are using.