Re: File sizes
Bruce Carter (bcarter@mentor.idbsu.edu)
Fri, 19 Jan 1996 14:44:08 EST
At 11:57 PM 1/18/96, Brian R. Trzaskos wrote:
>I've just realized something stange. File sizes have changed when I have
>transferred them from Hard drive to a floppy, and a group of files that I
>compressed into an SEA file and transferred and unstuffed on another have
>differring file sizes. I have never noticed this and am curious to know if
>this is a normal occurrence. I have never really botherer to notice
>before, but now my interest is piqued> I'd appreciate any info.
That's normal. It is for the most part caused by the different block sizes
on mass storage devices. Generally, the larger the storage device (or
partition), the larger the block size. Floppies have the smallest,
multiple gigabyte hard drives tend to have the largest.
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