George Bonser wrote:
> Also, e2fs is wasteful of disk space. You will have more available disk
> space in an msdos floppy format.
$ superformat /dev/fd0 tracksize=12KB cyl=83 mss
$ mdir a:
Volume in drive A has no label
Volume Serial Number is 6F43-9F01
Directory for A:/
No files
2 021 376 bytes free
$ mount /A
$ df /dev/fd0
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/fd0 1974 0 1974 0% /A
$ umount /A
$ mke2fs -m 0 -i 32768 /dev/fd0
$ mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /A
$ df /dev/fd0
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/fd0 1979 13 1966 1% /A
Pretty small difference. Of cource, I am allowed only 53 files
on the disk with this number of bytes per inode.
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