Re: Users folder has big problems
Re: Users folder has big problems
- Subject: Re: Users folder has big problems
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:55:31 -0400
Why would you expect to be able to back up files you can't read? Of
course you can't see how much space a folder takes up if you have no
permission to look into that folder...
Are you not checking the sizes as the same user running the backup?
On 9/2/09, Luther Fuller <email@hidden> wrote:
> In the thread "Snow Arithmetic" I complained ...
>> I need to copy a 409.1 MB folder into this free space. It should
>> certainly fit. But, after copying 296.2 MB into the free space I
>> receive the message "The operation can't be completed because the
>> disk is full." Yet, the image disk still has 136.1 MB Available.
>>
>> I restarted into Leopard 10.5.8 on an external startup drive and
>> tried again. But the problem has now infected the old system. 404.1
>> MB should fit into 412.9 MB, but does not and, yet, there are still
>> 132 MB of free space on the image disk.
>
> I have looked further into this and discovered why I am having these
> problems. Do the following to see for yourself in Snow Leopard.
>
> 1. Inventory the contents of your Users folder.
> Logged in as the admin user "lutherfuller" , my Users folder shows a
> total of 529.9 MB
> and also contains the folders "dummy", a standard user, and "Shared" =
> 324 KB.
> The sizes show: dummy = 78 KB, lutherfuller = 529.5 MB.
>
> I log in as dummy and find that the sizes are now:
> Users = 89.5 MB, dummy = 83 MB, lutherfuller = 6.21 MB,
>
> Logged in as root, I now find that:
> Users = 612.8 MB, dummy = 83 MB, lutherfuller = 529.5 MB,
>
> 2. Make a copy of your Users folder
> Logged in as the admin user (lutherfuller), I copied mine into another
> partition of my internal HD.
> Now open the copy, then open the folder <adminUser>. Surprise! Surprise!
> You will see folders you can't open because you don't have sufficient
> privileges ... only you can open them. (And this is also of the root
> user!) And the size of these prohibited folders are shown as 0 KB.
>
> Snow Leopard is showing a size for the Users folder that is smaller
> than its actual size. No wonder I was having a problem making a backup
> copy!
>
> This looks like a big bad bug to me. What do you see?
>
>
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