[NTLUG:Discuss] ext3 waste disk spaces then Windows ME?

[Chris Cox]

m m wrote:
> All:
> 
> I just notice that my 160 G hard drive "shrinked" to 140 (145?) G hard
> drive after fomatted to ext3 file system and mounted to my linux box.
> 
> I used to use that 160 G HD as WIN ME box, at that time I still have
> about 150  G total spaces.
> 
> Each  file system have its advantages. but is it worth to  sacrifice
> about 10G to use another file system?

Seems a bit extreme.  There's always the journal.. but it's
relatively small in comparison to the overall disk size on the
larger disks.

fat32 is a pretty simplistic file system.  10G still sounds a bit
extreme to me... but you're not alone...

Using reiserfs on my 900G drive yields
878865140K (840G)

I feel your pain.