From: Craig Taylor <ctalkobt@bellsouth.net>
To: Haakon Riiser <haakon.riiser@fys.uio.no>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NTFS disk usage on Linux 2.6
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 09:51:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4006A904.3000307@bellsouth.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040115010210.GA570@s.chello.no>
Do a "properties" within Windows on the folder - windows will report the
_actual_ size of the file in it's listings, not the amount of space it
takes up. I presume that that's what is going on.
Haakon Riiser wrote:
>Has anyone else noticed that the reported disk space usage on
>NTFS is completely unreliable on Linux 2.6? Just issued the
>command "du -sh" on my main Windows XP partition, and on 2.6.1,
>the reported disk usage is bigger than the partition size.
>
>Here's the output from "du -sh *" in Windows' root directory
>under Linux 2.6.1:
>
> 0 AUTOEXEC.BAT
> 0 CONFIG.SYS
> 43M Documents and Settings
> 0 IO.SYS
> 0 MSDOS.SYS
> 48K NTDETECT.COM
> 366M Program Files
> 0 RECYCLER
> 20K System Volume Information
> 12G WINDOWS
> 0 boot.ini
> 232K ntldr
> 768M pagefile.sys
>
>Same command on 2.4.24:
>
> 0 AUTOEXEC.BAT
> 0 CONFIG.SYS
> 41M Documents and Settings
> 0 IO.SYS
> 0 MSDOS.SYS
> 48K NTDETECT.COM
> 366M Program Files
> 2.0K RECYCLER
> 21K System Volume Information
> 1.4G WINDOWS
> 1.0K boot.ini
> 230K ntldr
> 770M pagefile.sys
>
>(The contents of the filesystem was, of course, identical in both
>cases -- I did not run Windows in between these tests.)
>
>Compare the disk space used by the WINDOWS directory in the
>two listings. On 2.4.24, it correctly reports 1.4G, while
>2.6.1 reports 12G, which is 2G more than the total space on
>the filesystem.
>
>I also compared this to the listings produced by "ls -lR"
>(summing the numbers on the "total ..." lines). The result
>was the same as with du -sh.
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-15 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-15 1:02 NTFS disk usage on Linux 2.6 Haakon Riiser
2004-01-15 14:51 ` Craig Taylor [this message]
2004-01-15 16:03 ` Disconnect
2004-01-15 19:05 ` David Sanders
2004-01-15 22:34 ` Wes Janzen
2004-01-16 0:43 ` Adam Sampson
2004-01-18 0:55 ` Haakon Riiser
2004-01-19 14:24 ` Anton Altaparmakov
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