From 79b79e76b4b888adb16411824e3d3133d5977c16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "http://joeyh.name/" Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 17:02:29 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added a comment --- ...mment_1_782cbf836335d86ff29853c34f00fec3._comment | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/forum/folder_size_question/comment_1_782cbf836335d86ff29853c34f00fec3._comment diff --git a/doc/forum/folder_size_question/comment_1_782cbf836335d86ff29853c34f00fec3._comment b/doc/forum/folder_size_question/comment_1_782cbf836335d86ff29853c34f00fec3._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..36bb93df3e --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/folder_size_question/comment_1_782cbf836335d86ff29853c34f00fec3._comment @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://joeyh.name/" + ip="108.236.230.124" + subject="comment 1" + date="2014-05-16T17:02:29Z" + content=""" +I don't have bandwidth to watch screencasts, so I can only guess. + +My first guess would be that you used `git add` to check the files into a git repository. This will exactly double the disk space, since each file is now stored in .git/ as well as in the working tree. This is a problem that git-annex solves. + +If you'd like to provide more information (cut and paste of details is useful), I can perhaps make more informed guesses. Or you could use `du` so see which files are taking up more space than you expect. +"""]]