Re: ext3 overhead - switch to another fs?

Sorry for the extra traffic; I forgot that I had 250 GB disks in the
array instead of 400.

dan.nawrocki@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
How much overhead is ext3 supposed to take? I have a RAID1 array with
two 400 GB drives, but the output of df is:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md0 233G 214G 20G 92% /data

As you can see, there is only 233 GB! Between the manufacturer lies
and fs overhead, I expected something more like 300 GB of usable space.
Are there any tweaks I can make to get more space? I've already
removed all of the reserved root blocks (aside: is this a bad idea?
This array is *only* used for sharing data over samba to my
windows/xbmc machines). Would switching to another fs increase the
total usable size of the array?

Thanks,
Dan


tune2fs output is:

Filesystem volume name: <none>
Last mounted on: <not available>
Filesystem UUID: c60d9346-94d4-4957-bd3e-3c869c9c2bd3
Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53
Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic)
Filesystem features: has_journal filetype needs_recovery
sparse_super
large_file
Default mount options: (none)
Filesystem state: clean
Errors behavior: Continue
Filesystem OS type: Linux
Inode count: 238592
Block count: 61048976
Reserved block count: 0
Free blocks: 5068254
Free inodes: 205093
First block: 0
Block size: 4096
Fragment size: 4096
Blocks per group: 32768
Fragments per group: 32768
Inodes per group: 128
Inode blocks per group: 4
Filesystem created: Sun Nov 20 22:38:36 2005
Last mount time: Sun Aug 27 22:23:35 2006
Last write time: Sun Aug 27 22:23:35 2006
Mount count: 10
Maximum mount count: 39
Last checked: Thu Jun 22 07:12:42 2006
Check interval: 15552000 (6 months)
Next check after: Tue Dec 19 06:12:42 2006
Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root)
Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root)
First inode: 11
Inode size: 128
Journal inode: 8
Default directory hash: tea
Directory Hash Seed: 9f869fa5-0bce-4504-8b56-ab2e2c5b1483
Journal backup: inode blocks

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