[Samba] Difference between real and reported disk usage

[Berni CED]

Berni CED <ced <at> bernispa.com> writes:
> Berni CED <ced <at> bernispa.com> writes:
> >      strict allocate = yes
> 
> I've retried commenting out this line and repeating the entire copy with
> robocopy: now the disk usage corresponds to the one reported by Windows and by
> "du -s -h --apparent-size".

To summarize, in my case "strict allocate = yes" has caused samba server to use
123 GB do store 45 GB of effective data. That is there is a lot more wasted
space (78 GB) than data (45 GB)!

Cesare.