February 10, 201412 yr As with most people I primarily use Windows for my desktop machine and use Windows Explorer for most tasks. When you bring up the properties on a folder in Windows you get 2 indicators of size - Size & Size on disk. Usually with Windows folders these two are fairly close, but I've noticed when doing this on UnRAID there can be huge differences. For example, I ran this on my Plex library folder and get the following: Size: 6.87GB Size on disk: 95.4GB So, two questions: 1) Why is there such a size difference between the two sizes when in UnRAID (or maybe Linux in general)? 2) Which one should we be relying on? I am looking at moving Plex to a VM, but want to make sure I have enough storage available. I could just create a 150GB disk to be safe, but want to make sure I understand correctly before doing so.
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