absolon
28-02-2008, 00:43
Hi!
Finally I attached HDD to my router. Before that I created one big ext3 partition (HDD 250Gb available about 225Gb) under PQmagic. During creation I had no choose for cluster size (4Kb). But I thought default size is ok.
http://ps.nd.e-wro.pl/remote_pics/ext3/clustersize.gif
Then I've uploaded some files to new drive. Accidentally one of uploaded folder contained a lot of small GIFs files (about 4-5Kb each). Real folder size is about 860KB. Please note KB! But when I saw how much drive space it took I couldn't say a word... about 840MB. It's 1000 times more. I realized it can happen when cluster is big (e.g. 64KB) and we will put a lot of small (e.g 4KB) files. But this partition has 4KB cluster. So why it happen?
http://ps.nd.e-wro.pl/remote_pics/ext3/siezondisk.gif
Finally I attached HDD to my router. Before that I created one big ext3 partition (HDD 250Gb available about 225Gb) under PQmagic. During creation I had no choose for cluster size (4Kb). But I thought default size is ok.
http://ps.nd.e-wro.pl/remote_pics/ext3/clustersize.gif
Then I've uploaded some files to new drive. Accidentally one of uploaded folder contained a lot of small GIFs files (about 4-5Kb each). Real folder size is about 860KB. Please note KB! But when I saw how much drive space it took I couldn't say a word... about 840MB. It's 1000 times more. I realized it can happen when cluster is big (e.g. 64KB) and we will put a lot of small (e.g 4KB) files. But this partition has 4KB cluster. So why it happen?
http://ps.nd.e-wro.pl/remote_pics/ext3/siezondisk.gif