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#1 2006-08-26 07:39:16

Feroxis
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Registered: 2006-08-26
Posts: 2

disk size

Hi!

I have two disks that are exactly the same (Samsung 400GB SATA) and noticed that the end size seemed to vary abit depending on how they were partitioned.

If partitioned as NTFS with Partition Magic it shows up as 373GB
If partitioned as EXT3 with Partition Magic it shows up as 361GB
If partitioned as EXT3 with cfdisk and mkfs.ext3 it shows up as 367GB

I guess its rather logic that it may vary between file systems, but still, as much as 6-12GB ?

Is there something that can be tuned with mkfs.ext3 or cfdisk to get more out of the disk? or any other file systems that would be better suited?

Not that a few gigs more or less is that big of a deal, but still smile

--Feroxis

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#2 2006-08-26 08:06:35

tomk
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From: Ireland
Registered: 2004-07-21
Posts: 9,839

Re: disk size

You can use the -m flag to reduce the amount of reserved space. Have a look at man mkfs.ext3 for full details.

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