On 7/18/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- [email protected] mailing list
