What is the difference between “Size” and “Size on disk?”

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00:00 Question
00:23 Accepted answer (Score 131)
03:09 Answer 2 (Score 33)
04:08 Answer 3 (Score 22)
07:51 Answer 4 (Score 14)
08:46 Thank you

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/66825/wh...

Accepted answer links:
[What's The Difference Between Size And Size On Disk In Windows Folder Properties]: http://www.watchingthenet.com/whats-the-...

Answer 3 links:
[clusters]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_cluste...
[slack]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slack_space...
[sector]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_sector
[Advanced Format]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Fo...
[DriveSpace]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DriveSpace
[NTFS compression]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS#File_...
[hardlinks]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_link

Answer 4 links:
[image]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/krbnb.png
[image]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/IgJUW.png

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