Hello Thomas Kuther wrote: > On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 13:46:04 +0200 > Thomas Kuther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Hello People! >> >>Just got a new harddrive and as i'm pretty pleased with reiser4 i >>thought i'll make it reiser4. But then i realized that it uses almost >>1/6 of the hd "for nothing" >> >>mkfs.reiser4 /dev/hde1: >>/dev/hde1 reiser4 222G 7,5M 222G 1% /shared >> >>mkfs.reiserfs >>/dev/hde1 reiserfs 233G 33M 233G 1% /shared >> >>somehow i had in mind that reiser4 should use much less space than >>reiserfs, but it's exactly the other way round. Loosing 17GB of an >>250GB disk is hard anyway. but loosing 28GB is simply no go. >> >>Now do i need to pass any special options to mkfs.reiser4 or why is >>that? i'm using reiser4progs 1.0.4 >> >>Thanks in advance >>Tom > > OK found out one thing: > Disk /dev/hde: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes <-- crap! > > # echo "250059350016/1024/1024/1024" | bc > 232 > ^^ > but that still doesn't explain why df only sees 222 when formatted with > reiser4.
reiser4 reserves 5% of disk space for its internal needs.
