[ale] File size

John Mills johnmills at speakeasy.net
Wed Jun 4 13:27:16 EDT 2008


Terry -

How do the file checksums compare with what the server sites told you to 
expect?

  - Mills

On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Terry Bailey wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have downloaded Fedora-9-i386-DVD.iso
>
> Using direct download, the file size is:  2,758,471,516
>
> Using BitTorrent, the file size is: 3,580,680,192
>
> I am sure that both ways finished the download.  Could anyone explain
> the difference in file size and which file, if any, is the correct
> one?  I know that BitTorrent automatically does verification.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Terry Bailey


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