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

Rob Beard rob at esdelle.co.uk
Tue Jun 24 20:43:56 BST 2008


Mark Allison wrote:
>> I'm creating an ext3 filesystem with a block size of 1024. Hopefully
>> the smaller block size will reduce wastage as I have lots of small
>> files. Thanks for your time. Will let you know tomorrow how this one
>> works out.
>>
> 
> Yay! Using a 1024 byte block size on ext3 worked! I still don't
> understand why the original config didn't work. Oh well.... thanks for
> your help.
> 

That's good.  I can't remember which distro it was that has the option 
to set block sizes depending on what each filesystem will contain such 
as big files, small files, a mixture of the two etc.

Rob




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