Rob Beard wrote:
> Mark Allison wrote:
>>> I'm creating an ext3 filesystem with a block size of 1024. Hopefully
>>> the smaller block size will reduce wastage as I have lots of small
>>> files. Thanks for your time. Will let you know tomorrow how this one
>>> works out.
>>>
>> Yay! Using a 1024 byt
Mark Allison wrote:
>> I'm creating an ext3 filesystem with a block size of 1024. Hopefully
>> the smaller block size will reduce wastage as I have lots of small
>> files. Thanks for your time. Will let you know tomorrow how this one
>> works out.
>>
>
> Yay! Using a 1024 byte block size on ext3 w
> I'm creating an ext3 filesystem with a block size of 1024. Hopefully
> the smaller block size will reduce wastage as I have lots of small
> files. Thanks for your time. Will let you know tomorrow how this one
> works out.
>
Yay! Using a 1024 byte block size on ext3 worked! I still don't
understa
> Now that is strange. I'd expect it if they were different block sizes,
> and possibly if they were different file systems but not if they're the
> same filesystem.
>
> I'm stumped for ideas. Have you tried backing up to an ext3 filesystem?
>
I'm creating an ext3 filesystem with a block size of
Mark Allison wrote:
>> They've got both the same block size?
>
> The LVM:
>> /sbin/debugreiserfs /dev/mapper/backupvg-backuplv | grep Blocksize
> debugreiserfs 3.6.19 (2003 www.namesys.com)
>
> Blocksize: 4096
>
>
> The original (source) partition:
>> /sbin/debugreiserfs /dev/sdc1 | grep Blocks
> They've got both the same block size?
The LVM:
> /sbin/debugreiserfs /dev/mapper/backupvg-backuplv | grep Blocksize
debugreiserfs 3.6.19 (2003 www.namesys.com)
Blocksize: 4096
The original (source) partition:
> /sbin/debugreiserfs /dev/sdc1 | grep Blocksize
debugreiserfs 3.6.19 (2003 www.name
Mark Allison wrote:
>> I don't know about Reiser, but on other file systems you can specifiy
>> the block/cluster size, if this isn't the same on both of your
>> filesystems, then there would be more slack space on the destination,
>> which would have the effect you're seeing...
>
> That's the th
> I don't know about Reiser, but on other file systems you can specifiy
> the block/cluster size, if this isn't the same on both of your
> filesystems, then there would be more slack space on the destination,
> which would have the effect you're seeing...
That's the thing. Both filesystems are ex
>> I had this a couple of years back on a Linux backup server which I used
>> to copy PC backups to. Turns out it was because it was full of little
>> files they took up lots of room. Not sure if you have lots of smaller
>> files on your disc that could be doing this. Could you try tarring
>> e
> I had this a couple of years back on a Linux backup server which I used
> to copy PC backups to. Turns out it was because it was full of little
> files they took up lots of room. Not sure if you have lots of smaller
> files on your disc that could be doing this. Could you try tarring
> everyth
Mark Allison wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I have a frustrating issue.
> I am trying to copy all files from /var/lib/backuppc_old to
> /var/lib/backuppc. When I copy the files, the /var/lib/backuppc
> partition always fills up although it is 100GB bigger. I don't
> understand why. /var/lib/backuppc_old
Hi there,
I have a frustrating issue.
I have three disks in my Ubuntu 8.04 home server configured as follows:
> df -h
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 7.8G 2.5G 5.1G 33% /
/dev/sdc1 466G 436G 31G 94% /var/lib/backuppc_old
/dev/mapper
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