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[openbeosstorage] Re: Facing the End ;-)

  • From: "shatty" <shatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeosstorage@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:47:17 -0800
<lurk mode=3D"off">
Almost all filesystems have a minimum possible size indepedent of the data =
they contain as well.  You would also need this information if you wanted=
 to know if you had enough room to create a new partition.  For example, =
if you wanted to make a new FAT32 partition you would need to have enough=
 room for the file allocation table. (+ other data)
</lurk>

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: "Ingo Weinhold" <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 01:17:23 CET (+0100)

Maybe a `free_blocks' field is not what I'm thinking of, but rather a 
`minimal_fs_size'. I suspect most FSs can simply set that to the used 
size -- it least, if they are able to defragment or whatever is 
necessary to not use more space when being shrunk -- others may add a 
safety margin, that they can estimate best.








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