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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?

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    Please provide an example with ls -al outputs of both directories.
    – Daniel B
    Sep 8, 2015 at 5:24
  • @DanielB I tried ls -al on the 2 folders. Source folder shows total 216, destination folder shows total 184. How could it be different? Sep 8, 2015 at 5:41
  • 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
    Sep 8, 2015 at 5:52
  • 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. Sep 8, 2015 at 6:31
  • So make a minimal example.
    – Daniel B
    Sep 8, 2015 at 9:08

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