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Why is a directory copied with the cp command smaller than the original?
I am tying to copy one directory with a large number of files to another destination. I did:
cp -r src_dir another_destination/
Then I wanted to confirm that the size of the destination directory is ...
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MAC OS X 10.9.5 - strange result with du command
Looking for big files that I could delete in order to free up some space on my Mac (OS X 10.9.5), I came up with a big cache file: /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.coresymbolicationd/data . It was ...
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du on Mac OS 10.9 gives two different answers for the same directory
If I run du on my iMovie Library.imovielibrary I can get two different results depending on how I run du. However, I believe both of these should result in the same value. Behold:
davids-imac:Movies ...
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