Re: puzzled about files on disk

On 15 aug, 05:33, Arno <m...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
sobriquet <dohduh...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi.
Something baffles me. Perhaps someone here can explain it.
If I go to the properties of my C drive on my laptop, the size
reported is smaller than the total size of the files and folders on
drive C:
http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/2843/dataa.jpg
How can the size of all selected files and folders on the C drive
exceed the total capacity of that same C drive?
Greetings and thanks in advance for any explanations, Niek

Probaly sparse files. NTFS does now write blocks that are filled
with zeros.

Arno

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But surely, if there had been previous data on disk that has been
deleted, it would have to write blocks of zeros if a file contains
nothing but zeros, otherwise the file would contain data from files
that had been stored on that block previously?
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