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Re: Woody, reiserfs: used space on partitions < ~100MB?



on Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 10:10:11AM +0100, Eduard Bloch (edi@gmx.de) wrote:
> #include <hallo.h>
> Karsten M. Self wrote on Tue Nov 06, 2001 um 11:32:48PM:
> > just a few percent used, with reiser the free space wsa about 50%.  I'm
> > having similar issues with my / partition.
> 
> You hit the point. ReiserFS creates allways a Journal with 32MB size.

That would explain the usage.  Hmm....

> > I've currently left /tmp as ext2, but am curious as to why the usage
> > under / is still 86% (it was closer to 50-60% prior to the switch.
> 
> Try ext3 if you want Journal which scales with available size. For
> example, ext3's Journal needs 4MB on 50MB partition.

Sounds like a better bet.

> > Data?  The reiserfsprogs man pages  and Reiserfs website don't seem to
> > provide any clues.  Other recommended filesystems that are fast and
> > relatively error free for /tmp?
> 
> I see there is a lack of documentation.

I'll bug Hans.

> Gruss/Regards,
> Eduard.
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