On 12/09/2013 11:11 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > 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.
The file size reported will depend on hard drive format (ext2/3/4 etc), number of partitions, sector/block/inode size chosen. Most of us will just select the defaults when formatting, so for your drives sector/block/inodes sizes can be different. Rather than file sizes, use md5sum on the data to help verify a proper copy. -Ed _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
