I'm just trying to write some data using k3b now.
When I do a 'du -sk *' in my /home direcotry I see:-
49179124 ben 1280276 chris 4 ftp 301972 isbd 16 lost+found 1601772 maxine 474064 zelma
However if I drop /home/chris into k3b to be written it says there is 4Gb of data, so why the discrepancy?