Vishal Doshi wrote:
>
> I think the minimum allocation unit is 8k in ext2fs. which means a 1 byte
> file and a 8000 byte file both take the same storage space.
> 10000 -- 1 bytes files == 10K reported as used. but 10K * 8K used = 80K
> used.
> Thus your 5000K could have been 20000K allocated.
>
i had wrote that 1600MB of SuSE Linux 6.3 could not get installed in my
2GB partition, and system hanged.
with your above "a thought", i now understand that such thing occurred.
i mean, due to 8k cluster size of ext2, it had used 8k space for much
smaller sizes, ended up consumming all 2GB much much before that size of
files were downloaded.
thanks for helping me, :-)) however inadvertently. ;-)
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