On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Orn E. Hansen wrote:
>
> I'd like to move much of my data to a journaling file system, especially
> since the kernels at late af a tendancy of crashing from time to time :-) and
> I've seen several files "vanish" as a result.
>
> Now I tried backing up the following ext2 file system...
>
> /dev/hdb13 326682 7814 302002 3% /usr/doc
>
>
> And made the file system an xfs, and remounted and putting the archived
> data back into the directory results in...
>
> /dev/hdb13 332532 115728 216804 35% /usr/doc
>
>
> Any explanation? and in case anyone asks, yes I tried making the file
> system an ext2 filesystem again, and then the used size is normal.
What size does du report when using it on that dir.
Cheers
Seth
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