On 13 August 2005 12:29, Fernando Meira wrote: > Hi, > > I been moving my gentoo system to other partition (ran out of space). > My old partition ran reiserfs 3.6 and due to this discussion, I've decided > to run ext3 in the new partition. Still to find out if it was a wise > decision... > Anyway, the first thing I noticed was this: > > # 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...??
ReiserFS packs small files more efficiently. That's the difference you are seeing. Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
