From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7d3530220610201905uef42ffet8b27e314f13e1caf@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 22:05:05 -0400 From: "John Floren" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] keeping an eye on disk use In-Reply-To: <7d3530220610201312m50c3eabejfd66b22735a8336b@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7d3530220610201036s608493e6re645cee06bf8e4c3@mail.gmail.com> <3bda50801852bc27b63911f9a10f5373@9netics.com> <7d3530220610201303m6bf8fd8do3600e6e89f075c1a@mail.gmail.com> <8ccc8ba40610201305p197ee145w6b9f6bfe5454ddac@mail.gmail.com> <7d3530220610201312m50c3eabejfd66b22735a8336b@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: cfa4c4ba-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 10/20/06, John Floren wrote: > On 10/20/06, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: > > Are you running that as the host owner? > > > > > Ah, much better. Thanks. Three percent used :-) > > On a similar topic, I want to convert this 20 GB disk to Venti and use > another 6GB drive I've got for fossil/swap/9fat. How can I get the > data from my current fossil disk to the 6GB? I assume that once I get > my system running on the 6GB, I can follow the wiki instructions to > add the 20GB as Venti. > > > John I've kind of come to the realization that I'm not fully certain how Fossil works. It *seems*, based on things I've read, that Fossil simply stores new files until they can be written to Venti, at which point the file is simply replaced by a pointer to the appropriate data in Venti. Is this right? Does that mean that with my 6 GB fossil disk and 20 GB Venti, I can actually store a lot more than 6 GB of data (provided I allow stuff to write to Venti periodically)? I'd appreciate if someone could clear this up for me. Thanks John Floren -- Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn