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 1GHnOs-0005hI-Fp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 20:08:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7SK5pSO027886; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 20:05:51 GMT Received: from desiato.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7SK20EA000023 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 20:02:01 GMT Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFF3E615B for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 21:01:59 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 21:01:54 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fstab devmode Message-ID: <20060828210154.2a4e0a07@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1156793182.26298.34.camel@sysconcept.ca> 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> <1156793182.26298.34.camel@sysconcept.ca> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.0-rc1 (GTK+ 2.8.20; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_9fJGjcvTvZdHj7F2j02wXZE; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 5ad05c59-4335-4159-9f51-186ebf838e63 X-Archives-Hash: d7487c134696f8b11580b30f2ff03d67 --Sig_9fJGjcvTvZdHj7F2j02wXZE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:26:22 -0600, Joseph wrote: > > 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. =20 >=20 > 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 >=20 > As Richard pointed out with Linux FS certain percentage is reserved. That's true of ext2/ext3. ReiserFS uses space more efficiently, especially when storing lots of small files, so although it may appear to offer less space that FAT, you'll probably fit more on the drive. --=20 Neil Bothwick Celery is not food. It is a member of the plywood family. --Sig_9fJGjcvTvZdHj7F2j02wXZE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE80u3um4al0N1GQMRAnKGAJ49sCkx7mrpB+qqJmU2pDVuHL5e9ACgwVgK 8wQDe0HP0Ygc6ofpLly6Uk0= =th1w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_9fJGjcvTvZdHj7F2j02wXZE-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list