I just restored my SL volume to an empty volume (with the "Erase...." box checked), and the sizes of the source and restored volumes are wildly different. (I got almost identical results from a second try.)

Source volume:
Code:
Artie-s-Computer-4:~ artie$ sudo du -xhd1 /
Password:
 40K	/.fseventsd
 31M	/.Spotlight-V100
  0B	/.Trashes
  0B	/.vol
882M	/Applications
3.9M	/bin
  0B	/cores
4.5K	/dev
1.0K	/home
1.5G	/Library
1.0K	/net
  0B	/Network
729M	/private
2.6M	/sbin
1.7G	/System
184M	/Users
379M	/usr
4.0K	/Volumes
5.3G	/
Artie-s-Computer-4:~ artie$

Restored volume:
Code:
Artie-s-Computer-4:~ artie$ sudo du -xhd1 /
Password:
336K	/.fseventsd
 37M	/.Spotlight-V100
  0B	/.Trashes
  0B	/.vol
964M	/Applications
9.0M	/bin
  0B	/cores
4.5K	/dev
1.0K	/home
1.6G	/Library
1.0K	/net
  0B	/Network
203M	/private
6.8M	/sbin
3.3G	/System
184M	/Users
935M	/usr
4.0K	/Volumes
7.2G	/
Artie-s-Computer-4:~ artie$

Does that Terminal output make any sense to anybody, or do I just not particularly understand what I did?

Thanks.

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