[X4U] Another question about cloning

[Norman Cohen]

It certainly could be the swap files (in /var/vm) that aren't getting  
copied.

Norm
Norman Cohen
nacohen at mac.com


On May 18, 2005, at 5:47 PM, John Baltutis wrote:

> Can't explain the size difference, unless diskutil, the underlying  
> machine
> for Disk Utility, is not transferring temporary and cache files,  
> because it
> knows that they'll be rebuilt upon startup.
>
> Apparently, there's a bug in diskutil that deselects the  
> invisibility bit
> for those directories. They exist at the root-level of every volume  
> housing
> a Mac OS X installation. Open the Terminal and type in this to see  
> them:
>
> ls -al /
>