Commit a0d9819f authored by Wayne Davison's avatar Wayne Davison

Document the side-effect that --partial-dir can have on --temp-dir.

parent a9af5d8e
......@@ -1094,8 +1094,16 @@ new version on the disk at the same time.
If you are using this option for reasons other than a shortage of disk
space, you may wish to combine it with the bf(--delay-updates) option,
which will ensure that all copied files go into a subdirectory of the
destination dir, awaiting the end of the transfer.
which will ensure that all copied files get put into subdirectories in the
destination hierarchy, awaiting the end of the transfer. If you don't
have enough room to duplicate all the arriving files on the destination
partition, another way to tell rsync that you aren't overly concerned
about disk space is to use the bf(--partial-dir) option with a relative
path; because this tells rsync that it is OK to stash off a copy of a
single file in a subdir in the destination hierarchy, rsync will use the
partial-dir as a staging area to bring over the copied file, and then
rename it into place from there. (Specifying a bf(--partial-dir) with
an absolute path does not have this side-effect.)
dit(bf(-y, --fuzzy)) This option tells rsync that it should look for a
basis file for any destination file that is missing. The current algorithm
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