hi, Here's an interesting one...
If I view the files on my Samba server, the file size is reported differently depending on if I'm looking from WinXX or Win2k. That is, if I do a 'properties' on a file with Windows ME for instance, I see 'Size' and 'Size on Disk' numbers that seem reasonable. Size on Disk is slightly larger which seems reasonable. But if I look from Win2k, the Size on Disk is huge! A 30KB file will show up that way in the Size entry, but be 1MB in the Size on Disk entry. I wondered if this could be because Windows thinks samba is an NTFS server, but I note that even looking at local files in Win2K on FAT32 shows this sort of discrepancy. I had never noticed this until today when a list member asked me about why his tape backups of the samba shares were filling the tape soooo quickly. I don't have the problem running the same tape drive from ME, but he's using 2k and going through tape like there's no tomorrow. So I'm guessing that the tape software is using the 'Size on Disk' information as it calculates what space is left on the tape. Can anyone shed light on this and suggest a solution? -- ...................... ..... Jason C. Leach .. Current PGP/GPG Key ID: 43AD2024 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
