On Mon, 09 Dec 2013 21:51:14 -0800
Dick Steffens <[email protected]> dijo:

>On 12/09/2013 09:32 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>> I have been configuring my new System76 Bonobo Extreme computer. In
>> the process I have moved all the distro ISOs that I keep for the
>> Clinic. To be sure that I have all of them properly moved to the new
>> computer I right clicked on each folder to check its properties,
>> which tells me how many files and the total size of the folder. For
>> some reason the files appear to have grown during the move:
>>
>>                      Old             New
>> Debian               10.9GB  11.7GB
>> DSL          49.9MB  52.3MB
>> Fedora               15.7GB  16.8GB
>> Knoppix              701MB   735MB
>> Mint                 9.2GB   9.9GB
>> Puppy                156MB   163.7MB
>> Ubuntu               52.2GB  56.0GB
>>
>> I find this very strange. Does anyone have any idea why this should
>> be?
>
>I may be totally in left field, but I have a recollection about block 
>sizes being somewhat arbitrary from one distro to another. Could that 
>account for the difference?

It's a good theory. The old computer had a 320 GB hard disk and the new
one has a 1 TB hard disk. I suppose it's possible that they have
different block sizes. 
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