Hi, If you do du -s /horizon, you will see tha actual size taken up by the files there. The size reported by windows could conceivably vary, but it's the size in linux that's important. reiserfs doesn't use blocks or clusters in the same way that other file systems do. It is a very efficient file system for handling small files, in that it can store several files in one block, if there's space left. In ext2, if you have a block size of 4096 bytes and a file of 2000 bytes, you will waste 2096 bytes. reiserfs will use those 2096 bytes to store a part of another file regards Anders On Thursday 30 August 2001 20.46, Jack Malone wrote:

I'm running suse 7.2 with resierfs partions. I have it partitioned off as /boot 20 megs / 14 gigs /home 3 gigs

I have setup a samba share on / as /horizon for the directory an put some files over there for our network. it seems that the files are taking up more space than they should. I right clicked on a directory that reports as 12 megs but using 72 megs. I see this size difference on all the directories on this machine. im running samba 2.2.0a. Is there a problem with samba shares an windows reporting the files taking up more space then they are are they really taking up that amount of space. Is there a way to declare the cluster size for a linux partition using resiefs.

thanks

jack malone Network Administrator EAST TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND dba HORIZON INDUSTRIES 903-595-3444 http://www.horizonind.com