Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 14:40:44 -0700 From: Dennis Glatting <freebsd@penx.com> To: Janos Dohanics <web@3dresearch.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Disk space economy Message-ID: <1406151644.20477.37.camel@btw.pki2.com> In-Reply-To: <20140723172954.e86883fcc8f54ee7ccbe32fd@3dresearch.com> References: <20140723172954.e86883fcc8f54ee7ccbe32fd@3dresearch.com>
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On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 17:29 -0400, Janos Dohanics wrote: > Hello List, > > I have a directory which contains 48 files. 35 of these files are > large, close to 2 GB (reported by ls -l). 7 of the files a smaller than > 4 K, the rest of the files are few dozen Ks in size. > > This is a FreeBSD 10 system with ZFS and RAIDZ2. > > du -h reports the directory to be 208G. > > du -A -h reports the directory to be 69G. > > It seems there is 2G wasted for each 1G stored data - would you explain > why and what can I do make more economical use of disk space? > Compression and/or dedup enabled?
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