macports' hardlinks and time machine backups

[Mark Anderson]

Call du with --si and you should get numbers that match.

—Mark
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Mark E. Anderson <emer at emer.net>

On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org> wrote:

> On 08/13/2017 07:57 PM, db wrote:
> > On 13 Aug 2017, at 18:46, Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org> wrote:
> >> MacPorts no longer uses hardlinks. We now keep the pristine state in
> archives in /opt/local/var/macports/software instead of hardlinking
> everything from there.
> >
> > Not even for other parts that I'm not aware of, that would explain the
> difference between Finder and du?
>
> Finder on macOS uses base 10, so "GB" stands for 1000*1000*1000 Bytes.
> du(1) uses base 2, so "G" means 1024*1024*1024 Bytes.
>
> https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201402
>
> Rainer
>
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