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Author:  DamianSilas [ February 28th, 2020, 5:04 ]
Post subject:  DE HFS Calculate Size larger than drive size!

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....

Author:  bojack [ February 28th, 2020, 7:28 ]
Post subject:  Re: DE HFS Calculate Size larger than drive size!

You may be seeing a folder with metadata containing the hard links and they are counted as files.

Author:  ddrecovery [ February 28th, 2020, 10:18 ]
Post subject:  Re: DE HFS Calculate Size larger than drive size!

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

Author:  DamianSilas [ February 29th, 2020, 2:11 ]
Post subject:  Re: DE HFS Calculate Size larger than drive size!

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???reverse phone lookupnba redditpcpartpicker
For Example I have a 1TB drive that I can read perfectly, but with Data Extractor, the amount of extractable data is 1.4TB....

thankyou

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