This option is most often used when the receiving disk partition does not
have enough free space to hold a copy of the largest file in the transfer.
-In this case (i.e. when the scratch directory in on a different disk
+In this case (i.e. when the scratch directory is on a different disk
partition), rsync will not be able to rename each received temporary file
over the top of the associated destination file, but instead must copy it
into place. Rsync does this by copying the file over the top of the
bf(--hard-links)).
it() A bf(.) means that the item is not being updated (though it might
have attributes that are being modified).
+ it() A bf(*) means that the rest of the itemized-output area contains
+ a message (e.g. "deleting").
))
The file-types that replace the bf(X) are: bf(f) for a file, a bf(d) for a