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AndreasKa
Feb 01, 2015Tutor
How to cCheck Size of a share/folder?
I may be missing something very simple here but I can't seem to view the size of a share or any folder via the web admin -> shares menu. When using the list view, there are 4 columns;Name, Type, Size...
Hephaestus1
May 17, 2015Aspirant
Yes, agree. I guess my angle was: data on NAS is often moved out to different environments; to copy folders to external computer, to backup selected folders from NAS to external drive, etc. I have extensive knowledge of other file systems architecture, but only very basic knowledge of BTRFS. With my limited BTRFS understanding it appears to me that changing what is understood here by "folder size" is necessary. My initial impression is that some conceptual problems could be solved by saying: "[in BTRFS] we can only say that a folder size is 10GB when it is copied outside of BTRFS environment. Within the BTRFS environment concept of "folder size" is different, and saying that it is 10GB is meaningless". Perhaps even changing naming convention within BTRFS could also help, to something like: "Ext Size" for "exported" or "external" size. With that paradigm change in place knowing "Ext Size" would be very helpful for users. I need to think about it more in my spare time.
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