On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 19:01 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > What is the result (disk space) in comparison to vfat, ext2 etc.? > > As Dirk pointed out, LVM is not a filesystem. If you want maximum > portability, FAT is the best choice. If you want to cram as much as > possible on the device, either use ReiserFS or get a larger device.
I just did a quick experiment with on 1Mb memory stick as to disk space with different filesystems, so with: - vfat about 978Mb - ext2 about 913Mb - ReiserFS about 946Mb As Richard pointed out with Linux FS certain percentage is reserved. -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
