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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