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sbeak@sopuli.xyz 9 hours agoSomething interesting that I found: according to dolphin, many folders have many GB extra (e.g. 52GB vs 66GB for documents folder which is kind of crazy) while filelight records 52GB vs 112GB for documents folder, which if true, is kind of insane. Using du -sh records 53G vs 136G (they’re the same when using --apparent-size, weird. Specifically for Godot directory, it’s 3.8GB vs 41 GB!!!)!!! Files like videos and games seem to be about the same size, while Godot projects with git are much bigger. Weird.
It’s good you found some pathological examples, but I’m at the end of my rope here.
You can use these examples and the other information you gathered so far and ask specifically how these size discrepancies can be explained and maybe mitigated. I suggest more specialized communities for this such as !linux@lemmy.ml, !linux@programming.dev, !linux@lemmy.world, !linux4noobs@programming.dev, !linux4noobs@lemmy.world, !linuxquestions@lemmy.zip.
I have cross posted to a Linux community. Thank you so much for all your help :DDDD
I’m assuming that Filelight count file size differently, and I will be trusting the result from dolphin more
using -H with rsync doesn’t seem to do anything unfortunately…
With Dolphin Godot directory is 1GB vs 5GB. Why is there a difference between filelight, dolphin, and du -sh? So weird
it looks like much of the extra Godot bulk is in .git and .Godot directories
Something about never knowing the time when one has two clocks
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
These differences really are insane. Maybe someone more knowledgeable can comment on why different tools differ so wildly in the total size they report.
I have never used BTRFS, so I must resort to forwarding googled results like this one.
Could you try
compsize ~? If thePerccolumn is much lower than 100% or theDisk Usagecolumn is much lower than theUncompressedcolumn, then you have some BTRFS-specific file-size reduction on your hands, which your external exFAT naturally can’t replicate.sbeak@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
percentage of total is 83% (292G vs uncompressed 349G apparently)