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Justin Dugger wrote:
| I brought this up around noon today on IRC, but I guess everyone was | out to lunch =). I've recently formatted my shiny new SATA drive as | ReiserFS, to try out a few new filesystems out. Since it was a 200GB | drive, and I plan to use it mostly for storing large files, I thought | it might be a bit faster if I used a larger block size, I used 4096 | (although I'm not sure what the default is, at the time I assumed it | was 1024). If you're interested in specific hardware details, I've | attached the output from the program lshw. Beware that it isn't | entirely accurate; one part I've noticed that's wrong is the socket | type on my CPU. | | Anyways, my problem and reason for posting this is that I can't seem | to store more than about 4 gigs on the drive. I can't create or move | files to the drive. Example: | | jldugger@jldugger:~ $ mv lshw /mnt/reiser/ | mv: writing `/mnt/reiser/lshw': No space left on device | | Some extra diagnostic information: | jldugger@jldugger:~ $ df | Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on | /dev/hda1 9410184 7957780 974388 90% / | tmpfs 518296 0 518296 0% /dev/shm | /dev/sda 195355016 4126812 191228204 3% /mnt/reiser | | jldugger@jldugger:~ $ du -sh /mnt/reiser | 4.0G /mnt/reiser | So, any ideas?
I suggest using jfs.
If you're wondering what your problem with reiser is:
- - Why did you format /dev/sda instead of partitioning the drive?
- - Exactly what format command did you use? Are you sure you didn't make a 4G reiser fs on a 200G 'partition' (/dev/sda)?
- -- Charles Steinkuehler charles@steinkuehler.net