This is interesting: When I have some images (over 587000 of them) on a ext3-format partition, they take 19737878 bytes (19.7 GB). When these same files are on a vfat partition, they take 27154592 (27.1 GB). Same images. Just copied freshly to the windows disk, so there is no fragmentation.
I guess this is because linux file systems (all?) only take roughly the space needed for each file, no matter what the size. Windows vfat takes 64K for each file, even if it is 1 byte in size. The images are mainly under 64K, so the amount of each file that is under 64 K is wasted on the disk by windows. And you wonder why we don't like windows. And disk sellers love it. Of course, NTFS is supposed to be better about this, but I won't test it. -- +····························+·······························+ · Roger Oberholtzer · E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · · OPQ Systems AB · WWW: http://www.opq.se/ · · Erik Dahlbergsgatan 41-43 · Phone: Int + 46 8 314223 · · 115 34 Stockholm · Mobile: Int + 46 733 621657 · · Sweden · Fax: Int + 46 8 302602 · +····························+·······························+ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
