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Hi Teej, Sorry for the un-understandable report. I already talked with some people on IRC and thought copying the chat protocal would contain all the necessary info. I'll try to rephrase this: I copied files with rsync to an another file system, checked the copy, and everything was fine. So copying the files worked perfectly. But when I used the properties info on the directories on the different file systems, the file length totals differed. I found this quite confusing, since the files were verifiably copied correctly, since different file size totals suggest a non-functioning copy process. So this caused me a lot of time to verify that indeed the files were copied correctly (because I didn't know that at first; I first took the different file size totals as a hint of a problem and only afterwords did a lot of efforts to verify the copying). So there are external, non-file-related variables which enter the calculation of the file sizes and which are not clear to the user. Somebody suggested that the difference is due to different inode blocksize, and this might well be the case. But this is not at all made clear in the user interface. On Windows systems, there are two total file size infos: 1- sizes of file content 2- disk sizes = actual disk sizes of files on the file system (this is more because of partially used blocks) and it's made very obcious in the user interface, there is simply no question left. I think KDE should not do worse then that. Hope this clarified what I tried to say. Regards Peer -- calculating file sizes with properties dialog in konqueror and dolphin https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/230634 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
