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Not sure what you consider a "typical desktop", but on Windows, WinSxS has gigabytes worth of hardlinks. If you don't care about them that's another matter I gu

• dataflow 5y ago
  Also note that the user will be confused when they delete the whole directory and observe 0 bytes get freed. (I guess a similar problem is also there even if you double count.) The point is, the problem itself is-ill defined. There's no solution to that other than scrapping or redefining the problem itself. And it's hard to define the problem precisely for a non-technical user.
  • glandium 5y ago
    > Also note that the user will be confused when they delete the whole directory and observe 0 bytes get freed. Note that's already the case when the user removes files that are opened by some process.
    • dataflow 5y ago
      On Linux yeah. On Windows no.
      • pjmlp 5y ago
        On any non POSIX system.