[Samba] Directory size display discrepency

[Michael Heironimus]

That actually looks pretty normal. Windows properties show two sizes
because it shows both the real size of a file (Size) and the amount of
space it's reserving on disk because of the cluster size (Size on Disk).
Your user will see the same thing looking at a small file or directory
in C:. I'm not sure how Windows handles the "size on disk" for a file
server, it probably either asks for it or guesses based on the total
size of the disk. In any case, it's normal to have different sizes
showing.

I'm assuming that the directory contents actually do total around 33
bytes. It's been a while since I used a DEC so I don't remember how its
"du" handles the size of small directories. If you use "ls -l" you'll
probably see that the directory shows 4096 as the size.

On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 11:55:52AM +0100, Stephen Kitchener wrote:
> I would liek to ask the list if any one can explain why there should be
> a discrepency in the directory sizes that are displayed when I use
> explorer on Windows. This has been reported to me by a user, I have
> never seen this before as I dont use windows if I can help it :-)...
> 
> When I slect properties of a directory it has two enties
> Size and Size on disk
> As an example size says 33 bytes, size on disk says 512kb and if I du a
> du -ks on the directory it reports 4 k.

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Michael Heironimus