On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 07:50 +0530, partha chowdhury wrote:
> William L. Maltby wrote:
>
> > Yes, for the reasons the others posted. However, if you know the
> > "profile" of what you'll have on there, a substantial amount of space
> > can be recovered by 1) make sure you have large block size and
William L. Maltby wrote:
Yes, for the reasons the others posted. However, if you know the
"profile" of what you'll have on there, a substantial amount of space
can be recovered by 1) make sure you have large block size and 2)
reducing the i-nodes allocated to suit.
Do a little thinking before y
On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 19:31 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I just reformatted an 8Gb USB drive as ext3.
>
> While as FAT32, it was reported as having well over 7Gb free (did not
> note the exact capacity).
>
> I reformatted with mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1
>
> Now it is reported (oh, this is with pr
I just reformatted an 8Gb USB drive as ext3.
While as FAT32, it was reported as having well over 7Gb free (did not
note the exact capacity).
I reformatted with mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1
Now it is reported (oh, this is with properties in Nautilus) as having
6.8Gb capacity (free space actually).
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