In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >>>>>> "Dima" == Dima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> As you state, disk space is now pretty cheap. That's not an > >> excuse to wantonly waste disk a la Microsoft, but symlinks > >> aren't exactly huge. > > Dima> Which is even worse, in a sense -- they waste a whole disk > Dima> block each, using only a few bytes in it. > >It was my understanding that the ext2fs compacts things so that >several small files/symlinks actually are placed in one block. Am I >wrong?
I didn't know that (obviously :) -- I suppose it would, too. --