Same files, different sizes in different partitions

[Guillermo Garron]

On 12/31/06, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
Nice to know that your problem has gone,
regards,


Guillermo Garron
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