I'm aware of relevant previous questions, but I'm seeing the opposite difference. When inspecting a net share, on a windows server, I see a folder with 'Size' ~10x larger than 'Size on disk':
What might be causing it?
Edit: The folder isn't compressed, the files aren't sparse (by random sampling), and the folder has low probability of duplicates - so symlinks/hardlinks cannot explain a 10x size factor. All in all, the answers here seem to not apply.
If the files are on an NTFS partition then there are various reasons for them to have smaller size on disk: Resident files, reparse points, compressed files, hard/soft links, sparse files...
If the files are not sparse and not compressed then it's highly possible that a lot of them are very small which will make them stay resident in the MFT entries of the NTFS partition, therefore they'll be reported as having a size on disk of 0
However your files look like being stored on a shared folder from the network, so size on disk measurement may not be reliable, because the client doesn't know how a folder is stored on the server. See
