Here is a puzzling one... for me anyway. $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdc1 1.9T 31G 1.7T 2% / udev 494M 4.0K 494M 1% /dev tmpfs 201M 804K 200M 1% /run none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock none 501M 92K 501M 1% /run/shm /dev/sdd1 37G 4.4G 31G 13% /media/1ee054d1-4d7b-41d0-982c-caa59590940e
Both sdc1 and sdd1 have the _same_ install on them. On the 40G drive the entire install only takes 4.4G but on the 2Tb drive it takes 31G? Almost 10 times the size? Is there a file that gets sized at a percentage of the total drive size (to a max size) or is the file system making files that size? (large chunk size) Does this mean that on the bigger file system all my files will be larger? Would it be better to have a smaller root partition (10 G or so) with a second large partition for /var and /home? Lets do a test... create a directory in /home called test music:/media/1ee054d1-4d7b-41d0-982c-caa59590940e# cp -a * /home/test/ That will copy the entire file system from the 40G drive into the /home/test directory. (USB2 drives are slow...) $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdc1 1.9T 35G 1.7T 2% / udev 494M 4.0K 494M 1% /dev tmpfs 201M 804K 200M 1% /run none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock none 501M 92K 501M 1% /run/shm /dev/sdd1 37G 4.4G 31G 13% /media/1ee054d1-4d7b-41d0-982c-caa59590940e Well, that is reassuring anyway. It only took the same size as it was. So not a block or chunk size issue. Either file system overhead (journal or whatever) or as I said some variable sized file. Interesting side note and nothing more. Setting up a root partition would not help for this. The bigger size may actually be a good thing performance wise for all I know. -- Len Ovens www.OvenWerks.net -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
