File Size

Jul 30, 2007 9:58am

borishaller 1 post

I put one file with a size of 580kb. The Konx size was then 38MB !!!. How is that possible and how can I recude the file size of faulted files?

Thanks

Jul 30, 2007 11:24am

Marko Karppinen Administrator 66 post(s)

The ~37MB overhead you are seeing is for the vault itself. You can store gigabytes of data on the vault and the overhead won’t increase.

If you are only storing a very small amount of data on a vault, you can reduce this overhead by choosing a smaller size limit in the “advanced options” of the New Vault dialog. A vault with a size limit of 100MB will only take a couple of megabytes of overhead.

The technical explanation for this is that Knox vaults include a whole HFS+ file system, and the bigger the size limit, the more HFS+ file system control structures the vault will contain.

Jul 30, 2007 4:27pm

Maddin 3 post(s)

Is it possible to reduce the filesize of an Vault? I have a Vault thats 19 GB big, but it’s amount of Data is only about 10 GB because I deleted some files in it. I would like to use the free space outside the vault.

Jul 30, 2007 4:58pm

Nikita Zhuk Administrator 2 post(s)

Yes, go to the “Vaults” tab in Knox Preferences, select the vault you want to compact and click the “Compact Vault” button.

Jul 30, 2007 5:28pm

Maddin 3 post(s)

I thought this was some kind of compression like ZIP or RAR to reduce the filesize of the whole content. Or does it just delete free space?

Jul 31, 2007 5:16am

Nikita Zhuk Administrator 2 post(s)

Vault compaction does not compress any files, it just recovers the free space.

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Jul 30, 2007 9:58am borishaller 1 post	I put one file with a size of 580kb. The Konx size was then 38MB !!!. How is that possible and how can I recude the file size of faulted files? Thanks

Jul 30, 2007 11:24am Marko Karppinen Administrator 66 post(s)	The ~37MB overhead you are seeing is for the vault itself. You can store gigabytes of data on the vault and the overhead won’t increase. If you are only storing a very small amount of data on a vault, you can reduce this overhead by choosing a smaller size limit in the “advanced options” of the New Vault dialog. A vault with a size limit of 100MB will only take a couple of megabytes of overhead. The technical explanation for this is that Knox vaults include a whole HFS+ file system, and the bigger the size limit, the more HFS+ file system control structures the vault will contain.

Jul 30, 2007 4:27pm Maddin 3 post(s)	Is it possible to reduce the filesize of an Vault? I have a Vault thats 19 GB big, but it’s amount of Data is only about 10 GB because I deleted some files in it. I would like to use the free space outside the vault.

Jul 30, 2007 4:58pm Nikita Zhuk Administrator 2 post(s)	Yes, go to the “Vaults” tab in Knox Preferences, select the vault you want to compact and click the “Compact Vault” button.

Jul 30, 2007 5:28pm Maddin 3 post(s)	I thought this was some kind of compression like ZIP or RAR to reduce the filesize of the whole content. Or does it just delete free space?

Jul 31, 2007 5:16am Nikita Zhuk Administrator 2 post(s)	Vault compaction does not compress any files, it just recovers the free space.