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The Topic: conservation of bytes

Herr Bsc
I just installed a new hard drive, and I'm copying everything from the old hard drive over. I used "cp -a", which should leave everything exactly as it was. But the old drive had 3551732K used, and the new one has 3962044K used. Where did the extra bytes comes from?

Responses:
Dilbert
Maybe the new drive has a larger cluster size, so you have more slack bytes.
Wally
Or maybe you unlocked a bonus room.

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