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Re: wasted disk space



Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it> writes:

> Yes, I understant this. The question is if the default debian installation
> should use the mke2fs default (4096) or force a 1024 block size.

 The default isn't 4k, it's 4k _if_ the partion is over a certain
size. Falling back to 1k for smaller sizes (see mk2fs_defaults and
set_fs_defaults in e2fsprogs/misc/mke2fs.c).

-- 
James Antill -- james@and.org
"If we can't keep this sort of thing out of the kernel, we might as well
pack it up and go run Solaris." -- Larry McVoy.



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