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#25
Originally Posted by jaromrax View Post
Hi,
I was just thinking about reformating /home/user/MyDocs/ partition to ext* because of the tile's size (also because of directory linking, permissions...).
On n900 I have 9.4G of OSM tiles (du -h)
the same on my PC with ext3 takes 1.4G
and apparent size on PC is 1.1G
And my PC has 4096 block size. Interesting.
I did all in the first post on my PC (with 1024 blocks) and the first thing I see is that the empty 4G file reports 3G free space after mount (on PC).
After tile-files copy - du says 1.2G and apparent size is 1.1G.
So - (before copying this 4G file to n900), the main problem is the size 3 out of 4G. This I dont understand. It looks like one block takes 256bytes?
I assume 1GB is taken by the filesystem - with 1024 block size, you have got four millions of them in the file and they must be stored somehwere (even though it seems strange that you need 250B to store one block, hm:-/).