Ok, so then reiserfs is a good choice when disk-space is a limitation.
In the Gentoo Handbook is stated that reiserfs greatly outperforms ext3 when 
dealing with some files, often by a factor of 10x-15x. But what about "big" 
files?

I might just redo my moving process and turn the new partition to reiserfs.
Fernando

On 8/13/05, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:29:18 +0000, Fernando Meira wrote:
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> > # 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...??
> 
> It's right if you have a lot of small files. Reiserfs uses tail packing
> (unless mounted with the notail option) to greatly reduce the amount of
> space occupied by small files, at the expense of some performance.
> 
> 
> --
> Neil Bothwick
> 
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