Re: Destination share larger than windows source

[Jeremy Allison <jra@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 03:41:59PM -0700, Mike Kelly wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running Samba 3.6.3 on Ubuntu 12.04 (beta).  Like many before me,
> I'm trying to migrate data from a Windows file server.
> 
> I copied over a share as a test and was a bit surprised when the amount
> of space allocated in the file system was over 100GB larger than the
> Windows source.  I am running on ext4 with "strict allocate = yes"
> because I want to be sure that when I turn on quotas, or my users fill
> up the file system, that they get the same error experience which they
> would get under windows.  Or, put another way, software expecting
> windows allocate-on-open semantics will get what they expect.
> 
> Now, if I were copying from a Unix file system I'd expect to blame this
> on sparse files or hard links.  However I'm under the impression that
> both of these are exceedingly rare under Windows.  Furthermore, I would
> expect the Properties dialog box to show useful numbers for "Size" and
> "Size on disk".  By "useful" I mean that if I were copying data to
> another disk of size X, I would expect my data to fit on that disk so
> long as these numbers are less than X.
> 
> I'm using robocopy from the windows file server to copy the files.
> 
> According to Windows there are 116,000 files and 2800 folders, and I get
> exactly the same values in Unix when running "find /share -type f | wc -l"
> and "find /share -type d | wc -l", except that the latter is larger by
> one, which I assume is because windows doesn't count the share folder
> itself and find does.  I would expect these numbers to be different if I
> was being bitten by some weird windows folder junction point.
> 
> Windows share folder size: 353GB
> Samba share folder size: 470GB
> 
> Can anyone explain this behavior?

Can you run a recursive du on both systems to see which
directories have a discontinuity ?
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