Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Jan 2004 09:51:48 -0500 | From | Craig Taylor <> | Subject | Re: NTFS disk usage on Linux 2.6 |
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Do a "properties" within Windows on the folder - windows will report the _actual_ size of the file in it's listings, not the amount of space it takes up. I presume that that's what is going on.
Haakon Riiser wrote:
>Has anyone else noticed that the reported disk space usage on >NTFS is completely unreliable on Linux 2.6? Just issued the >command "du -sh" on my main Windows XP partition, and on 2.6.1, >the reported disk usage is bigger than the partition size. > >Here's the output from "du -sh *" in Windows' root directory >under Linux 2.6.1: > > 0 AUTOEXEC.BAT > 0 CONFIG.SYS > 43M Documents and Settings > 0 IO.SYS > 0 MSDOS.SYS > 48K NTDETECT.COM > 366M Program Files > 0 RECYCLER > 20K System Volume Information > 12G WINDOWS > 0 boot.ini > 232K ntldr > 768M pagefile.sys > >Same command on 2.4.24: > > 0 AUTOEXEC.BAT > 0 CONFIG.SYS > 41M Documents and Settings > 0 IO.SYS > 0 MSDOS.SYS > 48K NTDETECT.COM > 366M Program Files > 2.0K RECYCLER > 21K System Volume Information > 1.4G WINDOWS > 1.0K boot.ini > 230K ntldr > 770M pagefile.sys > >(The contents of the filesystem was, of course, identical in both >cases -- I did not run Windows in between these tests.) > >Compare the disk space used by the WINDOWS directory in the >two listings. On 2.4.24, it correctly reports 1.4G, while >2.6.1 reports 12G, which is 2G more than the total space on >the filesystem. > >I also compared this to the listings produced by "ls -lR" >(summing the numbers on the "total ..." lines). The result >was the same as with du -sh. > > >
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