>use clonezilla >make image of SSD (180GB used) >image

>>59509974
id also like to know this
bump

>>59509974
>deletes metadata that can be rebuilt
>deletes CIA and NSA ghost bytes
>compresses everything with losless
yes

>>59509974

Empty space fa.m

>>59510161
space USED mate, USED. there is no empty space in the 180GB

>>59510189

There is now . . .

what drive did you save the image on?

also >>>/g/sqt

>>59510287
one of my other internal HDDs

>>59510298
probably just compressed everything it could. check your settings.

Did you defrag the hardrive?

I know that can be a cause of the space allocation.

As for the missing remaining 98 GB i have no idea

>>59509974
millions of small files take more space than one big file.

clusters and shit

>>59509974
do you have a ton of duplicate files?
beyond that, there are tons of inter-file dependencies in systems binaries (e.g., Windows keeping dozens of versions of libraries archived for whatever dependency reasons) that wouldn't be caught by file or block-level dedup but could be collectively compressed by a smarter utility.

>>59511383
>inter-file dependencies
shit, meant redundancies