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CONCEPTS: Add another way to describe the exclusive size
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CyberShadow committed Sep 29, 2021
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Expand Up @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ In `--expert` mode, btdu shows four size metrics for tree nodes:
- Specifically, btdu awards exclusive size to the *common prefix* of all paths which reference data from a given logical offset.
- Two files which are perfect clones of each other will thus both have an exclusive size of zero. The same applies to two identical snapshots.
- However, if the two clones are in the same directory, and the data is not used anywhere else, then that data will be represented in the directory's exclusive size.
- The exclusive size can also be described as the amount of space which would be freed if the corresponding object were to be deleted.
- Unlike other size metrics, adding up the exclusive size of all items in a directory may not necessarily add up to the exclusive size of the directory.

- **Shared** size
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