On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:01 PM, ML <mailinglists at mailnewsrss.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I was trouble shooting why an rsync was taking over a day. > > I found the problem to be in in a directory in /home that has CVS > backups in it. > > I browsed to find out that there are 7 .tar.gz archives that are each > about > > 1,199,943,181 in size. > > So that is over 11gb each? If I am doing the math in my head right.... > > No wonder why this is taking forever to rsync to a USB drive. It was > only on the second of 7 and I started it at 2pm yesterday and it was > not done/going this morning.... > > -ML Looks like maybe 1GB each, but if you use "ls -lh" it will show you "human readable" sizes.