[PLUG] Different file sizes on different computers

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Tue Dec 10 18:53:29 UTC 2013


On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:11:55 -0800
Paul Mullen <pm at nellump.net> dijo:

>On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 09:58:29AM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>> I think the best answer so far is different block sizes. Both drives
>> are ext4. I tried to check what block sizes the two drives used, but
>> Palimpsest and Gparted do not give that information. Is there a
>> command line tool that I can use to check this?
>
>tune2fs -l /PATH/TO/BLOCK/DEVICE | grep 'Block size'
>
>E.g.,:
>
>    # tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 | grep 'Block size'
>    Block size:               4096

Thanks. Both are reported as 4096. And both filesystems are ext4. So
that leaves Cian's GiB - GB suggestion looking more likely. But Thunar
used "GB" and "MB" on both computers, not "GiB" or "MiB." I wonder if
they changed it between 1.2.3 and 1.6.3 but failed to change the text
of the GUI window. 



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