On 4-Mar-2009, at 14:49, Roger Howard wrote:
> Hmmm, just jumping in here - I figured the problem is more to do with
> hardlnks in the path... I've seen a similar issue in the past with
> Finder
> filesize calculations where the total size of a directory which
> contains
> hardlinks may exceed the total capacity of the volume (imagine a 1GB
> volume, with a single 500MB file hardlinked 4 times - perfectly
> legal, but
> confusing to Finder IIRC). It's been a few years though, so I could be
> fuzzy on this, but we were using rsync and hardlinks to create
> incremental
> snapshots of a filesystem on our nearline storage array, and Mac OSX
> Finder
> - no surprise - wasn't quite sure how to deal with hardlinks.
Yeah, but in this case, its FreeBSD, and I think it DOES deal with
hardlinks just fine.
Besides, 8% of 144GB is 11.5GB, which is exactly what DF is reporting
as 'mising' space on that mount.
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