Same files, different sizes in different partitions

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 31 21:13:08 UTC 2006


On 12/31/06, Guillermo Garron <guillermo.fedora at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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?!
> >
> 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?

Thanks, Guillermo. I erased the contents of hde2 and used cp instead
of mc to copy from hdb6, and the reported problem did not occur. I
guess that mc may put some temporary files in the destination where it
is copying.

Paul




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