File System Foo
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009So I got a new 4GB solid state drive. The reason that I bought it was because it was only $6.00. I don’t have a clue what I will use it for. But I did an interesting experiment. How much space is used for the actual file system? For controls, I used a brand new Lexar SSD drive, I used gparted to delete and make all the file systems. And no space calculations were made until I verified that there were no files at all on the system (i.e. lost+found was deleted first). This is what I found.
| File System Type | Space used |
|---|---|
| EXT3 | 262.5 MB used |
| EXT2 | 198.4 MB used |
| FAT16 | 0 Bytes used |
| FAT32 | 4.0 KB used |
| NTFS | 19.7 MB used |
| reiserFS | 32.8 MB used |
| xfs | 4.2 MB used |
So, why does the File System take up so much room? And why does the default linux file system take up the most in my experiment?