Copying results in huge size differences in files

[elmerlang]

With FCS 2 causing headaches, I'm considering a clean install. But copying files to another drive I noticed the new size quite a bit larger than the original.

Any reason for that?

It certainly makes me wary of what's happening to my precious files!


best,
elmer

 

[Kees Buijs]

With FCS 2 causing headaches, I'm considering a clean install. But copying files to another drive I noticed the new size quite a bit larger than the original.

Any reason for that?

It certainly makes me wary of what's happening to my precious files!


best,
elmer

Are both drives formatted eqully. Sometimes different formats result in differte file sizes.

Try the copied files are you are done. If the size reduces, that would worry me more. If the copied files are oke, you might be lucky.


Good luck, kees

 

[pedz]

Drop into terminal and do "sum" on the two files. If they come out the same, then you should be o.k.

The only reason for this to happen is if the files have holes in them. I would need to see what you are looking at to determine the size. A file can have no blocks allocated at some points in a file. A database file would be the only practical example of when this would occur. Flat text files or applications do not have holes in them.

Oh... forgot to add. When you copy them using cp, the holes get filled in with zero filled pages (or blocks).