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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 (>1…

Error Output

mkfs.ntfs:
    /dev/sdb4             421G   78M  421G   1% /mnt/mmedia

mkfs.ext4:
    /dev/sdb4             415G  199M  393G   1% /mnt/mmedia
      …

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What is 6G mainly used for, for journal, for redundancy, or for indexing? (Not known yet.) Why the remaining space 393G not 415G? There is a 22G hole which is rather big. It's 5% reserved blocks for superuser, which is used to avoid fragmentation. Y…

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