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Clarify live status display 

When I backup one of my filesystems which has a lot of Hard Links (Backup directory of burp) the live status shows me 4.5 TB but it only takes up 1.2 TB of space in the repository. This is confusing because my repo is on S3 and I feared a huge Bill. This change should clarify this.
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@ -40,8 +40,7 @@ As you can see, restic created a backup of the directory and was pretty
fast! The specific snapshot just created is identified by a sequence of
hexadecimal characters, ``40dc1520`` in this case.
If you don't pass the ``--verbose`` option, restic will print less data (but
you'll still get a nice live status display).
If you don't pass the ``--verbose`` option, restic will print less data. You'll still get a nice live status display. Be aware that the live status shows the processed files and not the transferred data. Transferred volume might be lower (due to deduplication) or higher.
If you run the command again, restic will create another snapshot of
your data, but this time it's even faster. This is de-duplication at