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It’s a sure sign of a healthy non-bubble economy when a random Substack post can cause a stock market crash.

Turns out organisms are mostly made up of elements that are very common in the environment, which makes sense if you think about it.

That’s odd, maybe it has to do with symlinks? Adding --dereference to the du command will count the file size of the files referenced by symlinks. If that doesn’t show anything abnormal, I’d compare the directory sizes between your home directory and the rsync backup and try to find where they differ significantly. If it does show a much larger size, narrow down the location of the relevant symlinks (may be a hidden directory) and either delete them or exclude them from the rsync.

You can rerun the du command with --count-links to count hardlinks multiple times. If that shows >780GiB you have a lot of hardlinks somewhere, which you can narrow down by rerunning the command on each of the subdirectories in your home directory.

Your options would be to delete the hardlinks to decrease your total file size, exclude them from the rsync with --exclude, or repartition your SSD to a filesystem that supports hardlinks.

BTRFS supports compression and deduplication, so the actual disk space used might be less than the total size of your home directory. I’d run du -sh --apparent-size /home/sbird to check how large your home dir actually is. If it’s larger than 780 GiB, there’s your problem. Otherwise there might be hardlinks which rsync is copying multiple times; add the -H flag to copy hardlinks as hardlinks.

Felt kinda sad about it, but I feel sad most days so it’s not really any different. Hung out with a friend which was nice.