DE HFS Calculate Size larger than drive size!
Posted: February 28th, 2020, 5:04
by DamianSilas
Not the first time I have seen it, and I am sure there is a perfectly good reason, but why is it when I sometimes do a ‘calculate size’ on the full root of a HFS partition, i discover the amount of calculated Data is larger than the size of the drive???
For Example I have a 1TB drive that I can read perfectly, but with Data Extractor, the amount of extractable data is 1.4TB....
Re: DE HFS Calculate Size larger than drive size!
Posted: February 28th, 2020, 7:28
by bojack
You may be seeing a folder with metadata containing the hard links and they are counted as files.
Re: DE HFS Calculate Size larger than drive size!
Posted: February 28th, 2020, 10:18
by ddrecovery
DamianSilas wrote:Not the first time I have seen it, and I am sure there is a perfectly good reason, but why is it when I sometimes do a ‘calculate size’ on the full root of a HFS partition, i discover the amount of calculated Data is larger than the size of the drive???
For Example I have a 1TB drive that I can read perfectly, but with Data Extractor, the amount of extractable data is 1.4TB....
That normally happens when there are Backups present. Each link in the backup is counted as a file, even though it points to just one file.
https://blog.acelaboratory.com/time-machine-hfs.html
Re: DE HFS Calculate Size larger than drive size!
Posted: February 29th, 2020, 2:11
by DamianSilas
DamianSilas wrote:Not the first time I have seen it, and I am sure there is a perfectly good reason, but why is it when I sometimes do a ‘calculate size’ on the full root of a HFS partition, i discover the amount of calculated Data is larger than the size of the drive???
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