"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.

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