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WariorRepublicanKing
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Size vs. Size on disk
OK, I'm trying to put our old bulletins for church on a CD. The sum size of all 4 folders is 984 MB (1,032,016,791 bytes). The size on disk is 657 MB (689,901,087 bytes), so will it fit on a CD?

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10/1/2006 00:25

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that is a great question. i don't know that you will be able to find out without trying it.
fyi, size refers to the files actual byte count. size on disk refers to the amount of cluster allocation the file is taking up. as i understand it, you can only have one file per cluster. so if the cluster allocation is set to 4 k and your file only takes up 1 k, 3k of that cluster will be left unused.

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The siize vs size on disk had always puzzled me. is that a mistype where it says the size on disk was actually smaller? I thought the size on disk was always bigger, at least i've never seen it otherwise.

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size on disk should be the bigger number since it is based upon the number of clusters and space within a cluster is not always filled, but it is always allocated--so if you had 4k allocated for a cluster and the data in that cluster was only 1k, it would show the file size as 1 k and the size on disk would be 4k.

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Size on disk is sometimes bigger--for individual files it seems to always be, but for my folders w/ sub-folders it's normally smaller.

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From my politcal forum:
Inks.LWC wrote:

Joe Republic wrote:

Does it matter that you spelled 'Warrior' wrong?

I didn't spell it wrong. I'm so awesome, they had to redefine the word--in a different spelling :P