On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 16:53:32 +0400
"Vladimir V. Saveliev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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.
> 

Ah OK, that computes. So i'll go with reiserfs on that big one (11 GB
for internal stuff is too much i have to admit).

Thanks!
Tom

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