> 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 > everything into one big tar file to see if it does the same thing?
Thanks for the reply. I tried your suggestion to see what would happen and indeed creating a tar file seems to work fine and creates a tar file with almost the exact same amount of space as the source drive. I don't understand why lots of files in a reiser3 filesystem taking up 436G space end up taking up lots more space (> 530G) when copied to another reiser3 filesystem. Unfortunately the files in tar format are not much use to me. Is there any way I can copy the files over? Why is more space required? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
