pre2.0.7 disk quota bug

[William Jojo]

We are running NT4 w/SP5 (oops, I should've put that in my original, duh).

That makes sense to me...although it also seems silly how NT reports stuff. How
about some insight on my other two questions...


Bill

Giulio Orsero wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2000 00:50:27 +1100, hai scritto:
> 
> >2) If I check properties on a share (read only apps and stuff) - Open M:/select
> >all/properties, it reports 85,212 files, 3878 folders and on the size line:
> >
> >       Size:   7.15GB (7,682,881,503 bytes) 27,111,194,624 bytes used
> >
> >What in the world is that second number?! I'm sure NT is confused (as usual) but
> >really...
> Probably nt thinks that partition is fat16 or something like that, so
> maybe it tells you the overhead (like it does for local stuff)?
> 
> There are 2 files of 11 bytes each:
> 
> If I select the 2 files on a win98/fat32 dir (no network, same pc),
> win98 says:
> 22 byte (22 byte) , 8.192 byte
> 
> If I select the 2 files on a samba share, win98 says:
> if from network neighborhood:
> 22 byte (22 byte) , 1.024 byte
> if the share is mapped (seen as NTFS):
> 22 byte (22 byte) , 65.536 byte
> 
> If I select the 2 files on a win95fat16 share, win98 says:
> if from network neighborhood:
> 22 byte (22 byte) , 1.024 byte
> if the share is mapped (seen as FAT):
> 22 byte (22 byte) , 32.768 byte
> 
> If I select the 2 files on a win98fat32 share, win98 says:
> if from network neighborhood:
> 22 byte (22 byte) , 1.024 byte
> if the share is mapped (seen as FAT32):
> 22 byte (22 byte) , 65.536 byte
> 
> So, it's not a reliable value :)
> 
> However, I've just tried doing the same from an nt4sp6a and it does not
> show me the 2nd value doing "select/properties" as win98 does. What
> version of nt are you using?
> 
> --
> giulioo at pobox.com

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