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When copying data from one drive to another is it common to have slightly different file sizes or should they be exactly the same?

Asked by rovdog (842points) August 29th, 2010

If I make a copy of a folder (or a whole directory) to another drive and want to make sure that no data was lost, is it acceptable if the file sizes displayed are slightly different? Could this just be a product of the data being on a different drive and the size being calculated a little differently. I am talking about the folders being off by a a small amount- like 300 bytes and the whole volume being off by a few kilobytes

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