On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Guy Baruch wrote: > Hello. > I'm trying to create an internal freedb server on my home machine. > this DB has very large directories with a lot of small entries. > > I have it on a default ext3 partition, and it takes 2.4GB on the HD. > > The reason being that most the files are ~1K files. > > Since I had some space left, I created a 4GB partition and formated it with > mkfs -t ext3 -b 1024
Just a comment: You create a special partition for this, and it is supposed to have large directories with lots of small files. Did you consider use reiserfs? -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
