Many of you might have noticed that while you see the properties of some
folder their are two sizes shown over there in properties window.
Those
sizes are labeled as
“Size” &
“Size on
disk”. You can also notice that size on disk is always greater
than actual size.
So, here is the explanation of these two terms
- Size – It is sum of sizes of all containing files
and folders in it, in raw form (count of number of bytes).
- Size on disk - It displays the effective size which
they occupy in disk.
