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 1IjArH-0005A1-FB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:43:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9K9V7Bd006369; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:31:07 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.185]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9K9QhU1001402 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:26:43 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id f5so651868nfh for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:26:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=YNfrJM6n5EP561ekw1mWfzjR4tTXhp6Gp34fRRm45JY=; b=sjya2qRSrzyVducxnMAzc/AiJGPKySf/+VO+NsWCSsm7NowMVtRIDiW5F+w/UoyBwkimlKe7/jE6fIN2BtFNUwiuO5WJcL/51OAnVGwFe5WstOoouZyMJuxkn7Lps7hqZ9UIpj2nINuNwwOt6zPtwDCa1uPJpgNj4Xv8vBXj/tw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=kPh2OrprWRUqtou501mkRG7jIiIWf/+pHJETKbAIUxzTT5AItIcz9CeFRRuE6CiYb77sBFYI5wk/nWBPKrCGu8ecUHrqglaIKlK0VsGe/yQrIXjZO2NnWqwFDmi9qOxLtQ4pXP7e0Qz5QBxgCsHTV9Xk2s6gQXLnuY60yS3MPkA= Received: by 10.86.54.3 with SMTP id c3mr2101833fga.1192872403111; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:26:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ilievnet.com ( [84.21.204.1]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d13sm5629786fka.2007.10.20.02.26.38 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:26:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:26:35 +0300 From: Daniel Iliev To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved) In-Reply-To: <20071020085125.GB4637@sympatico.ca> References: <20071019183538.GA4639@sympatico.ca> <200710192108.58247.peter.alfredsen@gmail.com> <20071020085125.GB4637@sympatico.ca> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.0 (GTK+ 2.10.14; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <4719c9d1.0d375e0a.5337.ffffe98e@mx.google.com> X-Archives-Salt: 010347b4-d558-4c0e-b113-8340a0b0d575 X-Archives-Hash: 13dd3b048bb7dc232d9181caf4cf666e On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:51:25 -0400 Philip Webb wrote: --snip-- > > 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. > Are the source media and the usb stick formatted with the same file system? Are the block sizes of the file systems the same? -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list