renaming MacPorts' install directory - how to handle the TM backup(s)?

[Jeremy Lavergne]

You made sure it counted unique inode filesize and not recount them each time?

On September 7, 2014 2:10:12 PM EDT, "René J.V. Bertin" <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sunday September 07 2014 13:16:50 Brandon Allbery wrote:
>
>> Yes, I was saying any operation other than actually writing the file
>should
>> be safe, and then saying what would be needed in the
>> actually-writing-the-file case to make it safe.
>
>/Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/portia
>36808955 0 drwxrwxr-x+ 19 bertin admin 782 Sep  2 18:57
>2014-09-07-021603/Work/MP6/
>36982951 0 drwxrwxr-x+ 19 bertin admin 782 Sep  7 19:12
>Latest/Work/MP6/
>36982951 0 drwxrwxr-x+ 19 bertin admin 782 Sep  7 19:12
>2014-09-07-194315/Work/MP6/
>
>and 9.6Gb was copied. The 2 (sic) directories above are each 9.8Gb
>tall, so it would seem that despite my efforts to make the most recent
>backup reflect the changes I made since then, the full MacPorts tree
>was copied. Meh.
>
>It also seems that more than half the space MacPorts takes on my work
>disk is taken up by files I've excluded from being backed up ...
>
>R.
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