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On 13 August 2005 12:29, Fernando Meira wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I been moving my gentoo system to other partition (ran out of space). |
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> My old partition ran reiserfs 3.6 and due to this discussion, I've decided |
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> to run ext3 in the new partition. Still to find out if it was a wise |
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> decision... |
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> Anyway, the first thing I noticed was this: |
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> # df |
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> /dev/hda1 10080488 4406076 5162344 47% /mnt/gentoo |
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> /dev/hda4 4763112 3948116 814996 83% /mnt/old |
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> With exactly the same things in both sides, it seems that ext3 requires |
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> *much* more space ~450M. |
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> Can this be right, or I messed up somewhere...?? |
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ReiserFS packs small files more efficiently. That's the difference you are |
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seeing. |
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Uwe |
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