On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 06:54:34PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 05:35:48PM +0200, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote:
> > I found that of my 2GB root filesystem more than 10% is wasted because it has
> > been formatted by the potato installer with a 4K block size instead of 1K.
>
> Actually on my system all partitions are 1k:
>
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1 101075 86295 9561 90% /
> /dev/sda5 987251 747829 188416 80% /usr
> /dev/sda6 987251 922089 14156 98% /var
> /dev/sda7 1771824 1657510 22744 99% /home
>
> calista:/home/ecki# for i in /dev/sda1 /dev/sda5 /dev/sda6 /dev/sda7; do
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
bash lets you do great stuff : for i in /dev/sda{1,5,6,7} is faster
> echo "$i une2fs -l $i | grep Block\ size" ; done
> /dev/sda1 Block size: 1024
> /dev/sda5 Block size: 1024
> /dev/sda6 Block size: 1024
> /dev/sda7 Block size: 1024
>
> This is because I dont have so big partitions as u have and mke2fs is
> guessing that smaller blocks are better.
>
> Greetings
> Bernd
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