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10.5: Create a Time Machine size limit for networked disks
Authored by: felix-fi on Wed, Nov 21 2007 at 8:21AM PST

Just rephrasing the last sentece
"Basically, the problem boils down to the fact that TM is NOT able to recover freed space on a sparsebundle image which is on an SMB partition. period.

Meanwhile... anybody knows why sparsebundle images (created by TM) seem to report being twice as big as the SMB partition they are sitting on ? Weird...