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How can I check the actual size used in an NTFS directory with many hardlinks?
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On a Win7 NTFS volume, I'm using cwrsync which supports --link-dest correctly to create "snapshot" type backups. So I have: The content of 2010-12-02 is mostly hardlinks back to files in the 2010-11-28 directory, but there are a few new or changed files only in 2010-12-02. On linux, the 'du' utilit…
Error Output
z:\backups\2010-11-28\cygdrive\c\Users\... z:\backups\2010-12-02\cygdrive\c\Users\...
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Try using Sysinternals Disk Usage (otherwise know as ), specifically using the and flags will only count unique occurrences, and will show the usage of each folder as it goes along. As far as I know the file system doesn't show the difference betwee…
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