disk fun

[Net Llama!]

Errrr...roger, this it the 8th copy of this that i've received from you
today.

On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

>
> This is interesting:
>
> When I have some images (over 587000 of them) on a ext3-format partition,
> they take 19737878 bytes (19.7 GB). When these same files are on a vfat
> partition, they take 27154592 (27.1 GB). Same images. Just copied freshly to
> the windows disk, so there is no fragmentation.
>
> I guess this is because linux file systems (all?) only take roughly the
> space needed for each file, no matter what the size. Windows vfat takes 64K
> for each file, even if it is 1 byte in size. The images are mainly under
> 64K, so the amount of each file that is under 64 K is wasted on the disk by
> windows.
>
> And you wonder why we don't like windows. And disk sellers love it.
>
> Of course, NTFS is supposed to be better about this, but I won't test it.
>
>
>

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