Ubuntu file copy fake success?

I am using Ubuntu 14.04.

When copying a big folder with lots of files and sub folders from my NTFS U disk to my hard drive, the progress bar indicates that copy is finished. But the destination folder size is much smaller than expected.

I turn to use command line, the result is the same.

Any one knows what's wrong with this fake copy success?

smwikipedia

Posted 2015-09-08T05:20:27.793

Reputation: 464

1Please provide an example with ls -al outputs of both directories. – Daniel B – 2015-09-08T05:24:12.593

@DanielB I tried ls -al on the 2 folders. Source folder shows total 216, destination folder shows total 184. How could it be different? – smwikipedia – 2015-09-08T05:41:40.810

That’s what you were asking in the first place. Now please provide the full output of both commands, by editing your question. – Daniel B – 2015-09-08T05:52:24.510

That would be too many files... For now, I will try to zip the folder and then copy it as a single file. This is just a workaround. – smwikipedia – 2015-09-08T06:31:52.353

So make a minimal example. – Daniel B – 2015-09-08T09:08:01.663

@DanielB Small files seems ok so far. But let me try. – smwikipedia – 2015-09-08T13:39:29.090

Ubuntu file copy fake success?

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