[Samba] Calculating file size.

[Jason C. Leach]

hi,

Here's an interesting one...

If I view the files on my Samba server, the file size is reported
differently depending on if I'm looking from WinXX or Win2k.

That is, if I do a 'properties' on a file with Windows ME for instance, I
see 'Size' and 'Size on Disk' numbers that seem reasonable.  Size on Disk is
slightly larger which seems reasonable.  But if I look from Win2k, the Size
on Disk is huge!  A 30KB file will show up that way in the Size entry, but
be 1MB in the Size on Disk entry.  I wondered if this could be because
Windows thinks samba is an NTFS server, but I note that even looking at
local files in Win2K on FAT32 shows this sort of discrepancy.

I had never noticed this until today when a list member asked me about why
his tape backups of the samba shares were filling the tape soooo quickly.  I
don't have the problem running the same tape drive from ME, but he's using
2k and going through tape like there's no tomorrow.  So I'm guessing that
the tape software is using the 'Size on Disk' information as it calculates
what space is left on the tape.

Can anyone shed light on this and suggest a solution?




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