Re: File system overhead

[Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de>]

Hello Tony,

Am 2006-01-19 16:51:13, schrieb Tony Heal:
> anyone have a good link that explains why/what the ext3 overhead is. I have
> a partition that looks like it has 8GB taken up by the OS and I need to
> explain this.
> Filesystem            Size  Used   Avail   Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda9             219G  168M  208G   1%     /opt

AFAIK need ext3 one MByte journal per GByte disk space.

And the it depends how you have initialized the FIlesystem.
Exactly the blocksize: 1k, 2k or 4k

Greetings
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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