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| From | me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.system |
| Subject | Re: why does cloned mavericks drive use 5 gb less space than the original? |
| Date | 2015-03-23 02:34 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <menu45$onq$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <2015032214264664806-anon@anonumostorg> |
Bill F <anon@anonumost.org> wrote: > I make a bootable backup of my 120gb MBA SSD to a 120gb external drive > partition. The SSD then reports 7gb free space and the external drive > reports 12gb free. When I compare all folder sizes their total is > within 500mb of each other. I can't understand why the clone has so > much more free space than the original. All trashes are empty on both > drives. How much RAM do you have and what version of OS X are you running? When I was running 10.10 with 4GB of RAM, my virtual memory swap files grew to several GB in size. SuperDuper doesn't copy those. -- K. Lang may your lum reek.
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why does cloned mavericks drive use 5 gb less space than the original? Bill F <anon@anonumost.org> - 2015-03-22 14:26 -0400
Re: why does cloned mavericks drive use 5 gb less space than the original? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-03-22 14:48 -0400
Re: why does cloned mavericks drive use 5 gb less space than the original? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-23 18:29 +0000
Re: why does cloned mavericks drive use 5 gb less space than the original? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-03-23 09:13 +1200
Re: why does cloned mavericks drive use 5 gb less space than the original? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-03-23 09:58 +1300
Re: why does cloned mavericks drive use 5 gb less space than the original? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-03-23 09:27 +1300
Re: why does cloned mavericks drive use 5 gb less space than the original? tmo1138 <tmo1138@tmo1138.com> - 2015-03-22 21:44 +0000
Re: why does cloned mavericks drive use 5 gb less space than the original? billy@MIX.COM - 2015-03-22 22:30 +0000
Re: why does cloned mavericks drive use 5 gb less space than the original? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-22 23:49 +0000
Re: why does cloned mavericks drive use 5 gb less space than the original? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-03-22 20:35 -0400
Re: why does cloned mavericks drive use 5 gb less space than the original? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-23 01:21 +0000
Re: why does cloned mavericks drive use 5 gb less space than the original? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-03-23 14:41 +1300
Re: why does cloned mavericks drive use 5 gb less space than the original? nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2015-03-22 20:23 -0600
Re: why does cloned mavericks drive use 5 gb less space than the original? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-23 18:30 +0000
Re: why does cloned mavericks drive use 5 gb less space than the original? Bill F <anon@anonumost.org> - 2015-03-22 20:40 -0400
Re: why does cloned mavericks drive use 5 gb less space than the original? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-03-23 14:41 +1300
Re: why does cloned mavericks drive use 5 gb less space than the original? nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2015-03-22 20:23 -0600
Re: why does cloned mavericks drive use 5 gb less space than the original? Bill F <anon@anonumost.org> - 2015-03-26 03:00 -0400
Re: why does cloned mavericks drive use 5 gb less space than the original? Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-03-27 20:56 -0700
Re: why does cloned mavericks drive use 5 gb less space than the original? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-28 21:07 +0000
Re: why does cloned mavericks drive use 5 gb less space than the original? me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2015-03-23 02:34 +0000
Re: why does cloned mavericks drive use 5 gb less space than the original? Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-03-23 16:18 -0700
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