What is the difference between ''Size" and "Size on Disk?

Let’s learn what is the difference between ''Size" and "Size on Disk. The most accurate or helpful solution is served by Yahoo! Answers.

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Size is the size of the file. Size on disk is the amount of space on the disk that it takes to hold...

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What is the difference between "Size" and "Size on disk" when we see the properties of any file or directory.

When you right click on any file or folder and click on Properties to see the size of the file or folder, you will get two things there "Size" and "Size on disk". This showing two different value. why so ???

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Size is the actual size of the file in bytes. size on disk is the actual amount of space being take...

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Blu ray disk vs computer version size difference?

When I get blu ray movies on my computer it's usually around 2 to 4 GB. My friend recently converted a blu ray movie (disk) to his computer - he says that it is about 15 GB. I partially understand that some data will be removed as blah blah blah - asked...

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It depends on the rip settings, for size sake its ported down to 720P or SD Resolutions because really...

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Floppy disks often have two capacity specifications; they are often quoted with both their unformatted...

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As nullpointer pointed out the below answer has to do with hard drive size not file size so I've added...

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it does make a difference which type of file you are compressing I'm afraid. What are you trying to...

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what is size nnn? size on disk? question is a bit blur, i think there will be answer if you try search...

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Increasing size of a NTFS "disk" with Windows 7 in VirtualBox (running under Linux)?

I run Windows 7 in VirtualBox under Linux. Sadly when I created the virtual computer, I made the "disk" (a file) too small. I was therefor wondering if there is a way to increase the size -- or the size-limit -- for the file pretending to be...

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I dont know any free software, but try Partition Magic maybe theres a trial (not sure) Its pretty easy...

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