On 11/23/05, Dan Armbrust <daniel.armbrust.list at gmail.com> wrote: > I've been using reiserfs for a couple of years now, and have never had a > problem with it. I prefer it over ext3 because it doesn't waste nearly > as much space... ext3 (with default config anyway) wastes huge amounts > of your disk drive. > > Dan You can save some space when setting reserved blocks to 1% instead of the default 5%: mke2fs -m 1 -j /dev/hda1 man mke2fs: -m reserved-blocks-percentage Specify the percentage of the filesystem blocks reserved for the super-user. This avoids fragmentation, and allows root-owned daemons, such as syslogd(8), to continue to function correctly after non-privileged processes are prevented from writing to the filesystem. The default percentage is 5%. scot