[Samba] Free space calculation gets it wrong

[Thomas M. Skeren III]

Alexander Skwar wrote:

>Thomas M. Skeren III schrieb:
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>> I don't think Windows 
>>can understand how a directory on a "drive" can be larger than the 
>>"drive" itself.
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>I disagree.
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>On Windows XP (and 2000?), you can "mount" 
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Well not really. The drive must be "Dynamic" .  This is something I have 
not looked fully into, but it is not a traditional partitoning thing.  
Also, I'm not certain that mapping \\server\c in your example below 
would change anything from the remote computers' view.
a local drive in a

>directory. This means, that C:\Appl can be a complete partition.
>Suppose that the partition holding C:\ is 2GiB small. Suppose
>that a new partition has 50GiB left. If you mount that new
>partition in C:\Appl, you've got the situation that the
>directory C:\Appl is larger than the drive holding C:.
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>Alexander Skwar
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