DE HFS Calculate Size larger than drive size!

[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....

[bojack]

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

[ddrecovery]

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

[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???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....

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