"Yazan Al-Sheyyab" <yazan@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > hello everybody, > > how much space that gfs file system can take from a partion ? > > i mean that if i have a 500 MB partition and want to format it as gfs file > system , so how much space will remain for me in this partition after format > it as gfs file system? You can try it on a local file. As you can see below, there's not much left after adding three default-sized journals. ecashin@kokone tmp$ /sbin/mkfs.gfs -j 3 -p lock_nolock test.gfs This will destroy any data on test.gfs. Are you sure you want to proceed? [y/n] y Device: test.gfs Blocksize: 4096 Filesystem Size: 29652 Journals: 3 Resource Groups: 8 Locking Protocol: lock_nolock Lock Table: Syncing... All Done ecashin@kokone tmp$ su Password: root@kokone tmp# losetup /dev/loop0 test.gfs root@kokone tmp# modprobe gfs root@kokone tmp# mount /dev/loop0 /mnt/ FC2-i386-disc1 mooch-i386-disc1 FC2-i386-disc2 mooch-i386-disc1-bootdisk FC2-i386-disc3 mooch-i386-disc2 e15.3 mooch-i386-disc3 ed-gfs mooch-i386-stage2 file netstg2.img loop0 sah root@kokone tmp# mount /dev/loop0 /mnt/loop0 root@kokone tmp# ls !$ ls /mnt/loop0 root@kokone tmp# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 71G 40G 29G 59% / tmpfs 236M 0 236M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda1 942M 37M 858M 5% /boot /dev/loop0 116M 20K 116M 1% /mnt/loop0 root@kokone tmp# -- Ed L Cashin <ecashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
