From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:40:48 +0100 From: tlaronde@polynum.com To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20120110024048.GA407@polynum.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Subject: [9fans] fossil (again) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 569c788c-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 So I have reinstalled Plan9 ("howto" do without CD etc. will be written in some days). Since I want to grasp fossil (no venti) for now, I have allocated "only" 1 Gb to the thing. With an almost virgin installation (only some Mb more since I'm debugging kerTeX on Plan9), and no snapshots, there are less than 300Mb of data, and fossil announces taking... 800Mb (with 1 Gb, I have only 20% free). Can somebody point me to a doc that a less than gifted mind, it seems, can have a rough idea about what's going on, what space is needed etc; is there a "garbage collector", that is for "-t" files and dirs, once the file is deleted the blocks are freed and available, or is there commands to run to reclaim space etc.? I _read_ the man pages. But this is still not clear... Side note: are there statics about the Plan9 distribution, to know what is the best size of blocks? It seems that there is a lot of small text files, so 8kb is perhaps too much. TIA -- Thierry Laronde http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C