[H-GEN] Puzzled by 'disk full' message

[Robert Brockway]

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On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Alex Delaforce wrote:

> Would you really lose 5 to 6 Gig from a 11 gig partition to the
> Journaling overheads?

No, by default the journal on most journalling filesystems is not more
than 32Mb.  According to the ext3 man page, the ext3 journal must be
in the range 1024-102400 filesystem blocks (for a 4k block size this is
4Mb to 400Mb).

Rob

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