Re: Space wasting

On Monday, March 8, 2004 Marc Haisenko wrote:
> The additional wasted space you've encountered is heavily dependend on the
> filesystem used and the block size it's using.

> To make a long story short: filesystems normally don't count in bytes but in
> blocks. If your fs is using 4kB blocks each file is in fact a multiple of 4kB
> on the disc, even if your OS reports the payload size.

> If you've got lots of small files (and 25544 in just 69MB is LOTS of small
> files) the loss through this can be quite big if your FS can't compensate
> this (many UNIX filesystems can do this, though some like ext2fs require that
> you enable this option, AFAIK).

> So if you're using just one big file you'd discover that this one would use up
> almost exactly double the space in your working copy.

I know all this. How do unix fs compensate?

But I still think that the 1100% increase in folder count it's not a
good thing.

Adal Chiriliuc

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Received on Mon Mar 8 14:29:29 2004