Hello list, What would be a good number for the blocksize of an ext3 root-filesystem. My root-fs is 4.7 Gb and it keeps everything instead of home. After installation of crux and some additional packages (linux, gnuplot, tetex, prolog, xemacs, lmbench) and keeping the sources - there are 3.5 Gb in use (2.0 Gb for sources where only tetex takes 865 Mb). Are these common values? Is it possible that these numbers are too big and that this is due to my blocksize? I guess i have a default value... A directory node taks 4k. Is this my blocksize? What would be a good value? How do i figure out the exact value? How is the blocksize related to the pagesize? Do they have to be equal? Is there a problem with a too low blocksize, is there any? Please help.. matthias pfeifer PS: Is there a way to search the list-archive?