unixman_again Posted March 17, 2015 Posted March 17, 2015 I have an OpenOffice spreadsheet on my W7 machine Directory of C:\Users\ke1210\Documents\my_stuff 16/03/2015 09:01 42,310 ballet_dates.ods When I load the same file up on Linux, add more data and write it back, I get [surf@localhost ~]$ ls -l ballet_dates.ods -rw-rw-r-- 1 surf surf 35819 Mar 16 23:37 ballet_dates.ods Luckily disk space is cheap.
nathan Posted March 17, 2015 Posted March 17, 2015 Does windows not measure disk space differently to Linux?
andydis Posted March 17, 2015 Posted March 17, 2015 yes its to do with the filesystems , windows = NTFS , linux = ext3 / 4 p.s. Nathan, does your surname start with a T ? by any chance?
mjk Posted March 17, 2015 Posted March 17, 2015 I suppose that explains why a windows server takes up so much disk space then :-)
nathan Posted March 19, 2015 Posted March 19, 2015 yes its to do with the filesystems , windows = NTFS , linux = ext3 / 4 p.s. Nathan, does your surname start with a T ? by any chance? It does, does your surname have anything to do with mickey mouse? haha
JRowley Posted March 19, 2015 Posted March 19, 2015 Worth remembering of course that NTFS was first devised in 1993 and then updated in 2001. Ext4 was created in 2006. NTFS also has a broader feature set than Ext4. Anyways, it's not really a fair comparison.
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