From: vdjole@EUnet.yu   
      
   On 7 Jul 2008 20:42:48 +, Jo Even Skarstein  wrote:   
   >> The proposition therefore is that, when a desktop program displays   
   >> information about  "bytes used" in a directory or "bytes to be copied",   
   >> the used clusters are to be counted and summary information is expressed   
   >> in kilobytes   
   >   
   >I don't like this very much, because the size of the FILES is not the same   
   >as the space they occupy on a certain partition or filesystem. Your   
   >proposition means that the exact same selection of files will be displayed   
   >with different size on different partitions - not very logical to me.   
      
   But, in fact, a certain selection of files -will- occupy different   
   amount of space on different partitions, so the information I propose   
   to present may not appear logical at first sight but would be true.   
      
   I would like to mention dat when used space on disk is calculated   
   from information supplied by Dfree() the result is based on the   
   number of used clusters and can differ significantly from the sum   
   of "useful" bytes in all files. This, too, may appear ilogical and,   
   in fact, some users of TeraDesk have reported it as an error.   
      
      
   >Also, if you attempt to copy 10000 files with a total size of 97Mb from a   
   >partition with 16kb clusters to a partition with 1Kb clusters and 100Mb   
   >free, you're not allowed to do this because your way of calculating the   
   >size of the files on the 16kb-cluster partition indicates a total size of   
   >105Mb...   
      
   A good point. I did not intent to forbid copying anyway, just to issue   
   a warning- but it seems that the warning would be pointless.   
      
   cu;   
      
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