On 10 October 2012 18:55, Gregory Farnum <greg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I don't know the ext4 internals at all, but filesystems tend to > require allocation tables of various sorts (for managing extents, > etc). 7.5GB out of 500GB seems a little large for that metadata, but > isn't ridiculously so... > Just for comparisons sake, Just formatted a spare 500G disk (-8GB swap partition at the start) as ext4: $ df -h /dev/sdc2 Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdc2 451G 198M 428G 1% /mnt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html