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PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 4:48 pm    Post subject: Why do files have different sizes...? Reply with quote

Hey - files show up having different sizes on my usb drive instead of the local hard drive... any idea why this is? The difference is only a few megs. The drive is formatted with FAT.

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 5:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Could it have something to do with different block sizes of the filesystems?
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