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 4.43) id 1E3yjI-00042N-0N for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 16:19:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7DGHpg1012944; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 16:17:51 GMT Received: from smtp2.iway.na (smtp2.iway.na [196.44.136.4]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7DGCCba025992 for ; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 16:12:13 GMT Received: from vscan.iway.na ([196.44.136.13]) by smtp2.iway.na (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id IL67R701.Z1U for ; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 17:11:31 +0000 Received: from mx2.iway.na ([196.44.136.13]) by vscan.iway.na (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id IL650K01.7E7 for ; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 17:12:20 +0100 Received: from uwix.alt.na ([196.44.130.100]) by mx2.iway.na (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id IL650L01.N11 for ; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 17:12:21 +0100 Received: from uwe by uwix.alt.na with local (Exim 4.50) id 1E3yPB-0003kL-Ol for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 16:58:41 +0100 From: Uwe Thiem Organization: SysEx (Pty) Ltd. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook? Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 16:58:41 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <42F7D154.7050106@mid.email-server.info> <20050809134724.5c2b2cba@chi.speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508131658.41473.uwix@iway.na> Sender: Uwe Thiem X-Archives-Salt: 6c37ac1e-ae98-4bec-891a-f852d834f759 X-Archives-Hash: 5aa816cbfd88b162515aabe6fb949ae1 On 13 August 2005 12:29, Fernando Meira wrote: > Hi, > > I been moving my gentoo system to other partition (ran out of space). > My old partition ran reiserfs 3.6 and due to this discussion, I've decided > to run ext3 in the new partition. Still to find out if it was a wise > decision... > Anyway, the first thing I noticed was this: > > # 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...?? ReiserFS packs small files more efficiently. That's the difference you are seeing. Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list