How much space does journaling take on GFS?

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The default journal size is 128MB, but the journal size can be set with the -J option of mkfs_gfs.

This does not typically need to specified and is not recommended to change past the default value.

The number of journals you set when you made the filesystem with mkfs_gfs plus any journals you have added since then multiplied by the journal s...

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