On Saturday, Oct 4th 2003 at 16:58 -0500, quoth Aaron Konstam: =>On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 05:01:29PM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: =>> I just added a new disk drive to my computer and created a partition on it =>> that's roughly the same size as my /home partition (~8G). =>> =>> Then I said: =>> =>> cd /home =>> find . -print | cpio -pdvum /home2 =>> =>> When it was all done the /home2 directory was 400Meg bigger. So I thought =>> to myself. "Hmm. Sparse files are to blame." So I did a man on cpio and =>> found the --sparse option. So I ran it again and this time I get the =>> following result: =>> =>> 513 > df /home /home2 =>> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on =>> /dev/sdc1 8.4G 2.9G 5.2G 36% /home =>> /dev/sdb1 8.4G 2.7G 5.3G 34% /home2 =>> 514 > =>> =>> I'm off by 200Meg. Anyone have any idea what's going on here? They're both =>> ext3 and created with standard nofrill commands. =>> =>> Anyone? =>> =>The block size can be checked by the tune2fs command: =>tune2fs -l /dev/hdax => =>It is set when the disk is formatted by the mke2fs command when the =>partition is formatted. Sounds like your block sizes are different. Ok. I looked at both partitions. They have the same blocksize of 4096. What was different was the following: sdb1 sdc1 Inodes per group: 16352 16384 Inode blocks per group: 511 512 Mount count: 131 2 Other than that everything is the same. Any other ideas? -- -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have - -happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ -Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- -individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
