On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 08:56:19AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
| >
| > On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 08:10:49PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
| > >
| > > but wasting 5GB does not make sense.
| >
| > It is the same percentage of the disk that you waste with a small FS.
| 
| but it's not wasted as you usually need at least 30K inodes. it's
| about 4MB of inode space you must use.

Wouldn't a large partition store more files on average ? And thus
require more inodes ? 

Just a thought... ;)

Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd

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