Re: NTFS disk usage on Linux 2.6

From: Disconnect
Date: Thu Jan 15 2004 - 11:05:51 EST


On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 09:51, Craig Taylor wrote:
> Do a "properties" within Windows on the folder - windows will report the
> _actual_ size of the file in it's listings, not the amount of space it
> takes up. I presume that that's what is going on.

That's hardly going to account for a folder that is 2G LARGER than the
partition it lives on......

> > 12G WINDOWS
> >
> >Same command on 2.4.24:
> > 1.4G WINDOWS
> >
> >Compare the disk space used by the WINDOWS directory in the
> >two listings. On 2.4.24, it correctly reports 1.4G, while
> >2.6.1 reports 12G, which is 2G more than the total space on
> >the filesystem.

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