[X4U] invisible volume and disk space

[David Ledger]

At 21:03 +0200 23/5/11, alexandre wrote:
>hi
>
>i'm going to try and be as precise as possibleŠ here's my problem:
>
>i regularly clone my iMac 2TB hard drive to en external drive, 
>overnight using SuperDuper.
>
>last week, SuperDuper gave me an error, stating it hadn't been able 
>to complete the clone for some obscure reason. as soon as i had 
>closed the application, the system popped up a window saying i have 
>too little harddrive space left. indeed, all of a sudden only 200Mb 
>were available, whereas the evening before i still had roughly 400GB!
>
>this evening i ran GrandPerspective to have an overall view of my 
>drive contents and i'm noticing that it is indexing files on a 
>volume called iMac_Clone_2TB (the name of my external HD, but not 
>connected).
>
>soŠusing terminal, i've now made all invisible files visible and on 
>the top-level of the HD, there's now a folder called Volumes 
>containing another folder called iMac_Clone_2TB, weighing a whopping 
>377GB!
>
>i've no idea how it got there, my backup routine being the same for 
>the past year. but for some reason SuperDuper seems to have cloned 
>the drive to the drive being clonedŠ
>
>my question is: can i delete this folder? if so, how? any precautions needed?

When this happens with Carbon Copy Cloner it's save to delete, but I 
disconnect the external drive first just to be sure. Should also be 
safe with SD 'ghost clones' with the same precaution.

David


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