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I have a folder on a NTFS network drive. I had copied it over from my local NTFS drive. Its displayed size on the network drive is totally confusing to me:

Size:           1,34 GB
Size on Disk:   12,2 GB

How can there be a tenfold discrepancy between size and size on disk? And what is the true size now?

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It turns out the smb allocation roundup size was (and I guess by default is) set to 1048576 (i.e. 1MB), so even small files appear to have that size.

This was reported here as well. Lowering the value to 131072 as suggested there resolves the issue.

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