Folder Size Discrepancy

[tey112]

I have a folder on an external drive, formatted to exFAT, that has the following description from get info. I'm running 10.8.2 on an Air, but I doubt that matters.

Size: 1,893,552,665 bytes (6.36 GB on disk) for 8,777 items

What's up with the huge difference? Is it because of exFAT?

Thanks

 

[blesio]

It depends on the cluster size, if the cluster size is very big and you have a lot of small files then there might be a very big difference....

 

[tey112]

Thanks. It probably has to do with it being a ~1.74TB partition. I don't have to worry about running out of space yet, but would the way to fix that be to make a couple smaller partitions?