Is ext4 more expensive than ntfs?
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I have just converted an NTFS partition to ext4, however the total space seems reduced from 421G to 415G. Where did the 6G go? And, the reserved space is grown to 199M in ext4, much larger compared to 78M in NTFS, why?
The partition is mainly used for movies/musics, so most files are very large (>10M each). I want to use ext4 file system, is there any suggestion?
mkfs.ntfs:
/dev/sdb4 421G 78M 421G 1% /mnt/mmedia
mkfs.ext4:
/dev/sdb4 415G 199M 393G 1% /mnt/mmedia
It's also weired that the remaining size of ext4 is 393G, shouldn't it be 415G or 414G? What happened to the disappeared 22G? Compared to NTFS, ext4 seems eaten 28G in total.
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