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It seems to be a common misconception. When you right click an empty folder in Windows Explorer, it says the size is 0KB.
by tentacleuno 5y ago
It seems to be a common misconception. When you right click an empty folder in Windows Explorer, it says the size is 0KB.
- bmm6o 5y agoIf that means 0 kb in terms of sectors allocated, I would believe it. But the name has to be stored somewhere, right? It's just that the dialog doesn't account for that (and the acl, I'd guess). Or am i missing that this is a joke?
- marcan_42 5y agoThey only count file sizes. The folders still take up space, it's just not accounted for properly.
- awb 5y agoMaybe it displays 0kb because an empty folder is only a few bytes?
- sva_ 5y agoI think NTFS stores the names in a block at the beginning of the partition, with a reference to another block in the back which holds the contents. And it only reads those contents for size.