From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 12:59:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050813125955.1adb3605@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a3c2e88b05081304295088b344@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:29:18 +0000, Fernando Meira wrote:
> # df
> /dev/hda1 10080488 4406076 5162344 47% /mnt/gentoo
> /dev/hda4 4763112 3948116 814996 83% /mnt/old
>
> With exactly the same things in both sides, it seems that ext3 requires
> *much* more space ~450M.
> Can this be right, or I messed up somewhere...??
It's right if you have a lot of small files. Reiserfs uses tail packing
(unless mounted with the notail option) to greatly reduce the amount of
space occupied by small files, at the expense of some performance.
--
Neil Bothwick
Just don't give away the homeworld!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-13 12:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-08 21:40 [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook? Alexander Skwar
2005-08-09 1:30 ` Bob Sanders
2005-08-09 9:33 ` Ow Mun Heng
2005-08-09 20:47 ` Bob Sanders
2005-08-13 11:29 ` Fernando Meira
2005-08-13 11:59 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2005-08-13 12:24 ` Fernando Meira
2005-08-13 12:37 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-13 15:58 ` Uwe Thiem
2005-08-09 1:51 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2005-08-09 3:24 ` Richard Fish
2005-08-09 5:32 ` Michael Crute
2005-08-09 8:00 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-09 13:38 ` A. R.
2005-08-09 13:42 ` Mauro Faccenda
2005-08-09 13:40 ` Mike Williams
2005-08-09 13:54 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2005-08-09 14:29 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-09 15:09 ` Richard Fish
2005-08-09 15:41 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-09 18:14 ` Billy Holmes
2005-08-09 18:46 ` Christian Parpart
2005-08-09 20:36 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2005-08-10 15:49 ` [gentoo-user] Dropping harddrives (WAS Which filesystem for a notebook?) Billy Holmes
2005-08-10 15:57 ` Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
2005-08-10 16:14 ` Billy Holmes
2005-08-10 18:02 ` Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
2005-08-10 20:42 ` Craig Zeigler
2005-08-16 18:19 ` [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook? Alexander Skwar
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