From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IjC2p-0007X6-AA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:59:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9KAl2kQ023456; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:47:02 GMT Received: from tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts36.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.93]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9KAgtrh018614 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:42:55 GMT Received: from sympatico.ca ([70.49.157.228]) by tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with SMTP id <20071020104254.SEWA7990.tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net@sympatico.ca> for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:42:54 -0400 Received: by sympatico.ca (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:42:54 -0400 Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:42:54 -0400 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved) Message-ID: <20071020104254.GC4637@sympatico.ca> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20071019183538.GA4639@sympatico.ca> <200710192108.58247.peter.alfredsen@gmail.com> <20071020085125.GB4637@sympatico.ca> <4719C922.6040407@gmail.com> 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=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4719C922.6040407@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 0324e1fb-2154-4f38-bc88-269e67b2261b X-Archives-Hash: 002b0ac7df15e9e08b7bdfadeeb6fe3b 071020 b.n. wrote: > Philip Webb ha scritto: >> Anyone have a suggestion why using 'cp -a' to copy a lot of subdirs >> takes additional space on the USB stick (over the HDD space used) ? >> It doesn't happen when copying a straight set of files. >> It won't affect today's installation job, >> but wb useful for the future, if there's some way of avoiding it. > I've seen similar effects on my fat32 USB sticks. > What filesystem do you use on them? Another responder mentioned block sizes. Yes, that mb the problem. I'm new to USB sticks & haven't formatted them in any way: they seem to have an existing file system on them, but mb it's Fat32, which seems likely to be inefficient. So are there any standard recommendations for formatting them ? Do I simply do 'mke2fs' (the HDDs are formatted with ReiserFS) ? How about block size ? Thanks for the replies so far. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : purslow@chass.utoronto.ca ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list