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

Samuel Toogood sam_toogood at athsoc.org.uk
Sun Jun 29 17:06:03 BST 2008


Rob Beard wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
Debian (and, I think, ubuntu alternate and server installs)

Sam



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