[X4U] Another question about cloning

[Alex]

On May 18, 2005, at 20:47, 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.[...]

I assume "diskutil" is a typo for "hdiutil"; diskutil is used to check 
and repair local disks, while hdiutil is used to create and manipulate 
disk images. By default, when the source is the root of a volume, 
hdiutil scrubs the target image (skips temp files).

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