[nainil]

Hi,

Why is the Linux & Windows File system different.

I really can't figure out why one file in windows shows different file size while in Linux shows different.

Thanks.
Nainil.
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[horndude]

Depends on how the file size is calculated......1024bytes=1k or something else, sometimes its rounded off.The node size on the file system would also affect what the filesize is I would imagine, not positive on that, but I think thats the case.

I know that in linux for every magnitude of change with the file size the difference tween how big a file is in actual bytes vs whats reported with ls -l for example changes.just like the difference tween df -m and df will produce a diffrent reported size.

[HoLoCroN]

The file systems show different file sizes because they handle the data clusters differently.

For example, windows uses FAT16/32/NTFS which all handle data differently.

That is why if you have a 60GB HDD and you check to see how much space it has, the OS says 59.2GB Capacity.

Linus has a great advantage over windows in this category because some people just like to play with file systems to tune them for better performance (e.g.- reiserfs). A notable application area where improved performance is particularly valuable is that of news processing. News involves ``lots and lotsa tiny files,'' which tends to be challenging to handle.

Something that you can't do with a Windows machine.