OK...
  • While booted into a different SL volume
  • I restored my main SL volume
  • From a 25Gb volume to a 200Gb volume
  • With the "Erase..." box checked.
The progress bar showed that a block-level copy was done.

find_sl_damaged_files returned no errors.

Here are the comparative results of running du:

Code:
Source:
Artie-s-Computer-4:~ artie$ sudo du -xhd1 /
Password:
4.0M	/.fseventsd
4.0K	/.Spotlight-V100
  0B	/.Trashes
  0B	/.vol
902M	/Applications
3.9M	/bin
  0B	/cores
4.5K	/dev
1.0K	/home
1.5G	/Library
1.0K	/net
  0B	/Network
744M	/private
2.6M	/sbin
1.7G	/System
174M	/Users
392M	/usr
4.0K	/Volumes
5.4G	/
Artie-s-Computer-4:~ artie$

and

Code:
Destination:
Artie-s-Computer-4:~ artie$ sudo du -xhd1 /
4.0M	/.fseventsd
4.0K	/.Spotlight-V100
  0B	/.Trashes
  0B	/.vol
902M	/Applications
3.9M	/bin
  0B	/cores
4.5K	/dev
1.0K	/home
1.5G	/Library
1.0K	/net
  0B	/Network
745M	/private
2.6M	/sbin
1.7G	/System
129M	/Users
392M	/usr
4.0K	/Volumes
5.4G	/
Artie-s-Computer-4:~ artie$

Last edited by artie505; 06/29/10 12:05 PM. Reason: Changed "Destination" info to reflect correct procedure as per dkmarsh (and cleaned up some)
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