[wellylug] HUB

[Glen Ogilvie]

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On Tuesday 18 Nov 2003 5:19 pm, Brian Boutel wrote:
> Mangee wrote:

> As to how you get down to 7.2GB, I don't know. I assume by "formatted"
> you mean "after creating a file system". This costs space by reserving
> areas for particular purposes, but 14% (8.4 down to 7.2) seems a lot. 5%
> would be more normal. What kind of fs did you put on i?. What does fdisk
> tell you?
>
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From my experience, ext3 uses quite a lot with it's standard filesystem 
options.

I recently bought a large capacity hard disk 180gb, and with the standard 
options, was loosing about 18 gb to the file system.  After tweaking, got 
another 8gb of storage, so now at 170gb real storage.  I adjusted the 
settings with

mkfs.ext3's -m tag. (reserved-blocks-percentage) and some other flags (I don't 
remember, probally increased the block size, as I mostly store large files).

I have not had any problems with this drive and have been thru a number of 
unscheduled reboots without losing data with a reduced reseved blocks (0.5 % 
I think).

Glen