May 8, 201610 yr Hi all, using v6.1.6, and I noticed something that caught my eye... I was trying to copy a folder that I have on my PC, which is the install folder of the flight sim "X-Plane". This in almost 60GB content, and has a lot of files. When I copied it to unRAID, to my surprise when checking the properties, the space on disk almost doubled to over 100GB!!! What's going on? Is the cluster size or something that unraid uses too big an maybe it's that many files causing this?? I can't understand why it's that much bigger than on my regular NTFS disk. Attaching screenshot, would appreciate any help/info.
May 8, 201610 yr No panic, it is most likely just the reporting that is wrong. The numbers are perfectly in line with a common Samba/Windows problem. Pretty sure a check directly on the server would result in more reasonable numbers. Any particular reason for 6.1.6?
May 8, 201610 yr Author No panic, it is most likely just the reporting that is wrong. The numbers are perfectly in line with a common Samba/Windows problem. Pretty sure a check directly on the server would result in more reasonable numbers. Any particular reason for 6.1.6? Where do you suggest you check? Just login to the box cli and check? Regarding the version, not sure. Do you mean why I don't have a newer one? That's the one that was available when I decided to ditch my v4 install and upgrade (actually clean install) to v6. Do you suggest updating to the latest?
May 9, 201610 yr Where do you suggest you check? Just login to the box cli and check? That would, at least for me, be the most convenient way to check. If I wanted to check the disk usage of the Pictures folder in the Personal share to compare it against numbers from Windows, i would run: du -h -s /mnt/user/Personal/Pictures/ For those of us who prefer sane SI units rather than irrelevant base 2 units, replace -h with --si. For more information about options, run: du --help
May 10, 201610 yr Author Ok, so I did the cli thing ad yes, it shows as 60GB: :/mnt/user/Game Images/X-Plane 10 Install Backup# du -h -s ./X-Plane\ 10/ 60G ./X-Plane 10/ So all good then, just a bug between windows and it's display?
May 10, 201610 yr Ok, so I did the cli thing ad yes, it shows as 60GB: :/mnt/user/Game Images/X-Plane 10 Install Backup# du -h -s ./X-Plane\ 10/ 60G ./X-Plane 10/ So all good then, just a bug between windows and it's display? Windows doesn't know anything about the actual remote file system on the server, it relies on information passed to it over the network connection. Could be a problem in Samba, in Windows and/or with the SMB specification, haven't bothered to investigate. But yes, all good then.
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