Directory Properties "size on disk"

[MeterMan]

Hello,

This is probalbly stupid question, but I don't know it anyway! When I do a right click on a directory (novell dir) within windows explorer, the directory says "size 62.3MB", and then right below it says "size on disk 81.6MB".

What is the difference and why is there a size difference?? And what do each of the sizes actually mean?? Is this the novell compression??

Thanks,

andrew

 

[TheLad]

You are correct. The lower figure is the compressed size, the higher figure is the uncompressed size. NB: Explorer does tend to lie about the size of compressed files/directories. If in doubt, use the NDIR command. -----------------------------------------------------
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[MeterMan]

So which one is the actual space taken up on the hard drive??? The compressed one?? (Ie. the smaller one, 62.3MB), and if so, then why give us the other size?? I suppose in case you need to move that to another type of media!?!? (Ex. Cd.)

 

[TheLad]

You are correct. The smaller figure is the space currently used by the compressed data. The larger figure represents the amount of diskspace that would be used if the data would not be compressed.

If you run a command prompt and on a network drive do a NDIR /VOL, this will also detail the amount of diskspace being used by compressed data on the volume -----------------------------------------------------
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