[netcdfgroup] file sizes: netCDF classic vs. netCDF-4

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• Subject: [netcdfgroup] file sizes: netCDF classic vs. netCDF-4
• From: Nico Schlömer <nico.schloemer@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 00:16:12 +0200

Hi all,

When converting classical netCDF files to their modern format (compare
the thread starting at [1]) I noticed that the file size blows up
considerably, e.g.
```
$ du -sh pacman-classical.e
40K pacman-classical.e
$ nccopy -k hdf5 pacman-classical.e pacman.e
$ du -sh pacman.e
4.1M pacman.e
```
with `pacman-classical.e` from [2]. I'm not too worried about this
now, but is this something you would expect?

Cheers,
Nico


[1] 
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/archives/netcdfgroup/2015/msg00019.html
[2] http://win.ua.ac.be/~nschloe/other/pacman.e

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