file system overhead

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 20:50, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> What is the filesystem overhead percentage supposed to be for FC4
> systems?  I have 2 200GB disks attached to the system and I let FC4 do
> its thing and claim all of the space for itself.  When I do a df(1) I
> see that only 279 x 1024^3 bytes are available after overhead.  That
> comes out to only 71% of the original disk space.  Over 128GB is being
> lost.  Is there really supposed to be that much overhead used?

First make sure you are accounting for the disk space being
sold in 1000^3 GB instead of 1024^3.  Then add back the
swap space that FC4 puts in a logical volume instead
of a physical partition that you'd notice with fdisk.

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  Les Mikesell
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