Re: How nautilus "calculates" filesizes



Christian Neumair schrieb:
Am Samstag, den 31.05.2008, 12:05 +0200 schrieb Jonas Haag:
  
I'm downloading an ISO file that contains 700 MBs of data and I'll
stop
the download after 30 percent. Now, Nautilus tells me that the
filesize
is 700MB.
    

This depends on your browser or download manager. Some writeout the
entire file at the beginning of the download process and slowly fill it
with meaningful data, while others start with an empty file, and
constantly append data to the end of the file until it is at 100%.

best regards,
 Christian Neumair
Are you sure? I don't think it's possible to write 700MBs of (random) data within a second or less to the harddisk (which is also crypted...). By the way, even GNOME tools like Transmission would create their files this way...


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