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 1G2zF2-0005Ry-US for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 23:44:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6INhNog015406; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 23:43:23 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.186]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6INc0xc006690 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 23:38:01 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id m19so29190nfc for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:38:00 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=Kw007zyTXiLSqI40FkaEXV7gvlhqvmOTOht34Cw+C6f4PDrMaEDnBkRbKwCPbp4w2M6Yx8BKp3ZP4NXy9MiICUUtPA6iUKtUsSX3CsCft2tlAWk7pd9O71Dia8JxI5rl3FHnrP3DovhRhemm9D3oumWelKXj3QAhWz6/JpjtTSU= Received: by 10.78.175.14 with SMTP id x14mr50156hue; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:38:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.16.7 with HTTP; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:38:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7573e9640607181638w51ae2178p66721bf54e17de28@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:38:00 -0700 From: "Richard Fish" Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: amd64 installation: which file system? 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; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7573e9640607181501o49546aa8ref4e2dd2ee0ec12@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 87daf3244ebc4926 X-Archives-Salt: d86f1f4e-563d-41a7-b747-ac3919a3c17c X-Archives-Hash: 41353422a1989dd7f0c43cd100b3ad53 On 7/18/06, James wrote: > I understand the comments about reiser4, although folks claim the performance > is wonderful. But do you think that xfs will outperform reiserfs (3 series?). For large files, I think xfs has a slight edge over reiserfs. _Nothing_ beats reiserfs (except maybe reiser4) at handling lots of small files though. So I think reiserfs is great for /var and /usr/portage, /usr/src, maybe even /. > I have a problem I thought I had solved. I have tried > Partition Magic 7.0, repartitioning on the experimental livecd for > amd64 and now the livecd from Gparted. All allow resizing of the > 85 Gig ntfs partition, but, when I go to commit(run). All three > fail. No matter what I do, I cannot reduce the 85Gig down to 30gig. If you look at the filesystem in a tool that will show you what files occupy which extents (like O&ODefrag), you can take a look at what (locked) files exist near the end of the filesystem. Things like c:\hiberfil.sys and c:\$log are nearly impossible to move, so they could be the source of the problem. If this is the case, you might have no choice but to reformat and reinstall XP if you want a smaller NTFS volume. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list