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Duncan wrote: |
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> 32 megs? That's small! How old is it? I looked at that and thought to |
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> myself "typo, he must have meant gigs", but then I saw the below... |
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It's very tiny, I'll admit. It came with a camera I bought about four |
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months ago. Needless to say, this is the first time it's ever been used |
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for anything; I keep a 2GB SD card in said camera. |
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> Yes, it must have been 32 meg. reiserfs uses a 4k blocksize by default, |
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> and as it mentions, an 8193 block journal, again by default. That's |
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> about... 32 MB. So yes indeed, you'd have problems fitting that on a 32 |
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> MB device -- it'd be all journal! There are parameters you can add to |
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> mkfs.reiserfs/mkreiserfs to change both the block size (-b, 512 byte to |
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> 8k, 4k default) and the journal size (-s, 513-32749 blocks, default |
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> 8193), thus yielding a minimum journal size of 256.5kb which would have |
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> easily fit, but you'd not be expected to know that since you don't run it |
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> routinely, and even many who do probably don't know it. |
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I'll do some playing around with that this weekend and see what happens. |
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> be written, I don't believe reiserfs is particularly suitable for flash |
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> based media. |
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I'm inclined to agree with you; this card was just used for the purpose |
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of improperly unmounting LUKS filesystems because it was laying around. |
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I could just as easily have used a file system image or an external |
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hard drive from the corner store. |
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