>>>>> Valerie Clement (VC) writes: VC> Alex Tomas wrote: >>>>>>> Valerie Clement (VC) writes: >> VC> Hi Alex, VC> I did the following test: VC> # mkfs /dev/sdc1 VC> # mount -t ext4dev -o extents,mballoc,delalloc /dev/sdc1 /test VC> # dumpe2fs -h /dev/sdc1 VC> # cp linux.tar /test VC> # tar xf /test/linux.tar VC> # dumpe2fs -h /dev/sdc1 >> VC> The "Free blocks" and "Free inodes" counters in the dumpe2fs output VC> did not change after running the cp and tar commands. >> >> sync should help, I think. VC> No, I've just tried, it does not change anything. ah, it's simple. you're looking at superblock counters. we don't update them every time. this was changed years ago. try the same with regular ext3 thanks, Alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html