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Re: [LI] file size ambiguity- report



Arun Sharma wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 08:07:16AM +0530, Chetan Gopal Kashinath wrote:
> > hello everyone,
> >     here is the report i promised regarding the file size discrepency in
> > diff file systems..
>
> I haven't tried to reproduce it etc. But have you checked:
>
> (a) You're accounting for possibly different block sizes on different
>     filesystems ? (I think you are, going by the mail).
>
> (b) 1k != 1000 bytes, but 1024 bytes. Are you sure that you're not making
>     this error in your calculations ?
>
>         -Arun

see 1k != 1000 but 1024 in both file systems..... i think that shouldn't be a
problem here. but in any case my case takes 1k == 1024 bytes.

chetu
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