"Joshua b. Jore" <josh at kitten.greentechnologist.org> wrote: > > I'm going to eventually eventually send this stuff out to CDR so I can > free the machine back up and recover data at my leisure. What I'm > wondering is if I'm going to run into some sort of limiting factors in > ext2 or iso9660 in the process. My ext2 partition is formatted with the > default 4K blocks so does that mean that *every* file occupies that much > space or are the blocks sub-allocated? ext2 does not do sub-allocation in filesystem blocks, as far as I know. ReiserFS does (and it should do it pretty well), and some of the other filesystems around these days probably do. I suppose you could create a loopback filesystem with smaller block sizes or a different filesystem if you want to try to get around that problem without repartitioning and reformatting. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Many are called, few / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ volunteer. \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011207/3dcdc465/attachment.pgp