On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:29:18 +0000, Fernando Meira wrote: > # 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 Just don't give away the homeworld!
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