On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 06:49, _HoF_ Blaza wrote: > I noticed this when transferring a 200mb file from my win box to my linux > box (that has it's hd shared with samba). I typed ls -l in a term window to > see the progress, but it was showing full size even though according to > windows the transfer was only around 10-20%, and so on. > > Why does samba do this? If I transfer with ftp, or ssh transfer, I see the > file size growing in shell.
If you do a 'du' you should see the disk-space used. I think windows writes to the end of the file, to 'grow' it. Samba doesn't actually cause unix to pre-allocate that space, which is why there is a difference between the two sizes. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net
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