From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GHmoB-0003Y7-7K for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:30:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7SJRk1E010070; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:27:46 GMT Received: from sysconcept.ca (103.205-206-12-0.interbaun.com [205.206.12.103] (may be forged)) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7SJPhh9029360 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:25:43 GMT Received: by sysconcept.ca (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7A9212EB779; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:26:23 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fstab devmode From: Joseph To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20060828190113.2a3a9119@hactar.digimed.co.uk> References: <1156704912.6541.9.camel@sysconcept.ca> <1156723679.14288.3.camel@sysconcept.ca> <20060828093007.1de4ce95@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <200608281038.22732.ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com> <20060828095151.12ba5ff7@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <1156783809.26298.23.camel@sysconcept.ca> <20060828190113.2a3a9119@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:26:22 -0600 Message-Id: <1156793182.26298.34.camel@sysconcept.ca> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 X-Archives-Salt: 6f7c4704-634d-44dd-a098-c69d8d457086 X-Archives-Hash: a6c580d528f0491e0a9d10b0824756b9 On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 19:01 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > What is the result (disk space) in comparison to vfat, ext2 etc.? > > As Dirk pointed out, LVM is not a filesystem. If you want maximum > portability, FAT is the best choice. If you want to cram as much as > possible on the device, either use ReiserFS or get a larger device. I just did a quick experiment with on 1Mb memory stick as to disk space with different filesystems, so with: - vfat about 978Mb - ext2 about 913Mb - ReiserFS about 946Mb As Richard pointed out with Linux FS certain percentage is reserved. -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list