[NTLUG:Discuss] [Bulk] Re: ext3 waste disk spaces then Windows ME?

[Leroy Tennison]

Chris Cox wrote:
> m m wrote:
>   
>> All:
>>
>> I just notice that my 160 G hard drive "shrinked" to 140 (145?) G hard
>> drive after fomatted to ext3 file system and mounted to my linux box.
>>
>> I used to use that 160 G HD as WIN ME box, at that time I still have
>> about 150  G total spaces.
>>
>> Each  file system have its advantages. but is it worth to  sacrifice
>> about 10G to use another file system?
>>     
>
> Seems a bit extreme.  There's always the journal.. but it's
> relatively small in comparison to the overall disk size on the
> larger disks.
>
> fat32 is a pretty simplistic file system.  10G still sounds a bit
> extreme to me... but you're not alone...
>
> Using reiserfs on my 900G drive yields
> 878865140K (840G)
>
> I feel your pain.
>
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One of the nice things about Linux is that you have a choice.  Chris has 
just mentioned Reiserfs.  I hear there's also XFS and maybe a couple 
more.  Don't know if they will be any better but, even if they're not, 
at least you get to pick your pain.