On 17:31 Thu 14 Feb , Bob Proulx wrote: > Times change so this info may be out of date with the newer > filesystems but at one time journal filesystems needed filesystem > space for the journal and also space needs to be allocated for the > inodes. (See 'df -i' output.) I assume LVM will need some space too. > There is always overhead. > > Bob
I agree Bob. I was just suprised at how much space 5-6GB is eaten up by the overhead. I have several 8G USB drives and remember using 5 1/4 inch drives. To throw away 5 gb even though it is only 1.42% of the drive as formated seems like alot. I am being silly I guess. For the record: I formated the partition wih mkfs.ext3 -m0 -O ^resize_inode /dev/mypartions it did not save any significant space compared with mkfs.ext3 -m0 /dev/mypartions so I left it the way it was earlier. I guess I am resigned to wasting 5G on a 354G partition. So it goes. Thanks! Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130215061917.ga25...@earthlink.net
