https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489971
--- Comment #6 from Harald Sitter <sit...@kde.org> --- Because it isn't the correct size. It shows you the theoretical size (e.g. a text file with 4 ascii characters is 4 bytes in size in dolphin) meanwhile filelight shows the actual size on disk (e.g. a text file with 4 ascii characters is actually multiple KiB because files are allocated in blocks so even if the file is smaller than a block it still occupies at least that one block). The advantage of the former is that the filesystem can freely lie about the size. The trouble is filelight doesn't need a lie, it needs to know the actual properties of the file to then determine what type of size we want to know given the properties of a file (is it real, does it exist on disk, is it compressed). And Linux has no API for that as far as I know. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
