Re: squid on SCSI with linux

In article <cistron.02fe01be3415$cc9ea860$4701020a@erutku>,
Utku Er <erutku@netone.net.tr> wrote:
> I get a 9 Gig. SCSI for my squid machine which is running linux... What
>is the best filesystem for squid on linux...
>is ext2 good solution ??? Do I have some other alternatives ??

ext2 is just fine.

> I mkfs.ext2 on my 9.17 Gig. SCSI and Linux df -k says 8.1 Gig. available...
>what happened to my 1 Gig. which is a good place to cache ?

9.17 disk GB == 9 170 000 000 bytes. Now if you define a GB as 1024*1024*1024
you'll see that 9 170 000 000 bytes == 8.54 GB. And that is the way Linux
shows it to you. 9.17 GB is marketing speak for a 8.5 GB disk.

Also, ext2 reserves 5% of the available data for emergencies (only root
can write to it) and for performance reasons, speed and avoidance of
fragmentation. So 8.54 GB - 5% == 8.1 GB.

Mike.

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