[ubuntu-uk] Copying files from a reiser3 partition to LVM problem

Mark Allison home at markallison.co.uk
Mon Jun 23 20:54:49 BST 2008


> I don't know about Reiser, but on other file systems  you can specifiy
> the block/cluster size, if this isn't the same on both of your
> filesystems, then there would be more slack space on the destination,
> which would have the effect you're seeing...

That's the thing. Both filesystems are exactly the same. Why is it
using more space? Is it something to do with the way LVM allocates
space? This is driving me nuts...



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