> On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 05:35:48PM +0200, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote:
> > I found that of my 2GB root filesystem more than 10% is wasted because it has
> > been formatted by the potato installer with a 4K block size instead of 1K.
>
> What exactly is on your /-mountpoint? home? var? usr? opt? Everything?
Everything except /home and other local stuff.
> Can we have that awk script please and thanks for your work. I guess the
It is in the attachment.
> reason is, that nobody has bothered to change the default of mke2fs. The
> default is actually calcilated from the File System size (and if it is news
> or not). So perhaps we should talk to Ted about that?
We could better force the 1K blocksize for the root partition, unless it is
so large that we have to use 4K blocks.
> Greetings
> Bernd
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