Same files, different sizes in different partitions

[Guillermo Garron]

On 12/31/06, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All
>
> In hde2 I have a subset of the set of files in hdb6. However, quite
> surprisingly, the used size in hde2 is greater than the used size in
> hdb6:
>
> /dev/hdb6             71630968  50686876  20944092  71% /mnt/mandriva
> /dev/hde2             74770560  55040436  15931960  78% /mnt/montado
>
> How can it be?!
>
> Thanks in advance,
You can use the
du -h on hde2 root, and the same in the directory of hdb6 wich is
copied to hde2, maybe it is related to the cylinders size?

-- 
Guillermo Garron
"Linux IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are."
(Using FC6, CentOS4.4 and Ubuntu 6.06)
http://www.go2linux.org