[MITgcm-support] files size on disk is too large

[Chun-Yan Zhou]

Hi Martin,
The file size of the output, I run a case and put all the output files into one folder, and then right click the folder and choose properties. The actually size of all tge files is about 70.8 GB, I don't know why the Size on disk is so large.
Cheers!
chunyan
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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:23:34 +0100
From: Martin Losch <Martin.Losch at awi.de>
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Subject: Re: [MITgcm-support] files size on disk is too large
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Filesize of what? the executable, the output, the entire filesystem MITgcm including subdirectories? What do you do to get these numbers?

Maritn

On Jan 11, 2013, at 2:18 PM, Chun-Yan Zhou <c.zhou at dundee.ac.uk> wrote:

> I run a case of MITgcm, but the size on disk is much much larger than the actual size of files.
> Anyone has an idea to reduce the size on disk? Thanks a lot.
>
> total size of files: 70.8 GB (70,767,084,809 bytes)
> Size on disk: 570.2 GB (570,204,389,376 bytes)
>

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