Subject: Re: Mac file size different on linux machine
From: Patrik Schindler (poc@pocnet.net)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 02:14:34 EST
>One strange thing that I found out lately is that as I save a file from the
>Macintosh machine to the Linux server the file size is DIFFERENT. I saved a
>2.7 MB of file on the Mac to the linux server. The size of that same file
>on the Linux server is 5 MB. This is very confusing and space consuming.
What size exactly do you mean? (allocated vs. used)
How have you measured the size on the server? (info vs ls -l)
In General: Don't tust the "allocted" counter on a server. Afp handles block allocation different from a hard disk. As long as the used bytes are the same, all is okay.
:wq! PoC
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