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deduplication > shared folder size weirdness?

Hi,

I've upgraded my file server to Windows 2012R2 and I've enabled deduplication for some of its hard drives (which have shared folders).

One of these shared folders has a quota of 70 GB. And that's what it tells me when I looked at the mapped shared on my workstation: drive T: , total size: 70 GB, free space: 1.44 GB

But when I look at the folder info on the file server itself it gives me this info for the folder: size 53 GB, size on disk: 21 GB

Is that supposed to be like that? And if yes then what does it mean?

TreeSize also gives me weird feedback: in the status bar it tells me 'free space: 1.44 GB (of 70.0 GB)' but in the list above this it also indicates only 21 GB ...

Any help is appreciated! Thank you

[edit: I'm just noticing that this folder has been set to 'compressed' on the file server ... that might explain some of the weirdness ... and now with dedup I guess I better not use 'compress' on the file level?]
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