Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 21:06:42 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com> Cc: FreeBDS-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Inefficient disk space usage? Message-ID: <20011009210642.C41739@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20011009211933.B23880-100000@mail.radzinschi.com> References: <20011009211933.B23880-100000@mail.radzinschi.com>
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In the last episode (Oct 09), Marco Radzinschi said: > I am curious as to what cluster sizes FreeBSD uses. I use this > FreeBSD box as a mail and file server, and I formatted the whole disk > as dedicated to FreeBSD. My concern is that I have 8.51 GB worth of > files in one particular directory, but they take up 9.02 GB of > physical space. By default, filesystems are set up with 8K blocks, which can further be split into 8 1K fragments. Files over 8K will take up multiple blocks and up to 7 fragments. Small files will occupy 1-7 frags, depending on filesize. The du command will tell you how much disk space is taken up. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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