Because you're taking it out of a deduplicated location. Read the article about the blocks being moved into the System area.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J- P Sent: Friday, October 31, 2014 10:27 AM To: NT Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Size on Disk HUGE discrepancy I can open the files, using domain admin, full permissions- When i copy it to the desktop or any other location , both sizes are then accurate Jean-Paul Natola ________________________________ Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 11:43:52 -0400 From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Size on Disk HUGE discrepancy To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Definitely strange. What are the file sizes? I have <1,000 and total over 2.3 GB of space. Can you open the files? Try and copy them to a USB stick and see what shows. Regards, Hank Arnold [MVP Logo_Small] Consumer Security "There are 10 kinds of people in the world... Those who understand binary and those who don't." My Blog: http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/personal-pc-assistant/ Twitter: @Hank_PCDoc Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hank.arnold.96 From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J- P Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 2:15 PM To: NT Subject: [NTSysADM] Size on Disk HUGE discrepancy Hi all, this may seem trivial ,however, this particular situation has me concerned; We have a photo archive that's been around for about 15 years- it started on a 2k server, moved to a 2003,2008 and now its on a 2012r2 server. I know the norm is that the "size on disk" would be a bit bigger than "size" due to file system, cluster size etc.. but in this case its the reverse, and by A LOT, and NO, compression is not enabled The directory 112 Gb, and contains 20,029 files and 414 folders, now size on disk only reports 26.3 MB (27,607,040 bytes) thats MEGS, NOT GIGS Is this something to be alarmed with?
