macports' hardlinks and time machine backups

[Dave Horsfall]

On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Rainer Müller wrote:

> 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.

It's for this reason that I've always referred to the base-10 usage as 
"marketing MB", because the numbers are bigger.  There is a trend to use 
e.g. "MiB" and "GiB" for the real number (amongst us computer freaks who 
use base-2).

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