> > Sorry if this question was already answered, I couldn't find it. > > I have two partitions on the same disk, one fat32, one reiserFS, oth > with plenty of space. Since I spend all of my time in Linux, I keep the > Fat32 partition for storage. > > I frequently access a large number of small files (~10-30k), but I only > need to have them available to Linux. Is there any advantage to keeping > these files on one partition as opposed to the other. (e.g. as far as > space taken up them or acess speed?) > > -Paul Rodr�guez unless you want to access your file from winows and from your post, you don't, there is really no point in storing your files on fat32. As far as the disk usage goes, on a 8 GB partition, the smallest block on a fat 32 partition was 8 kb i think. so a 10 kb file would use up 16 kb on you fat 32 partition, and a 30 kb file would use up 32 kb of space. the larger the file the less percentage of space wasted. but since reiserFS is native to linux you could even store your applications there and run them from the reiserFS partition. somehow i wasn't able to do this on a dos partion.
Thank You, Regards, mario
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