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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!festival!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] free diskspace? Message-ID: <CJIxvH.21F@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <2gmsqn$qo9@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <CJF8H5.E8p@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <2gvhmt$bv5@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 16:02:04 GMT Lines: 18 In article <2gvhmt$bv5@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >Agreed. If you can send me the changes required to make 5% the default >size I'll make sure it gets brought up with the FreeBSD developers. I wasn't actually asking you to change the default, just advising that it would be safe for a user to change it. But if you want to change it (which sounds reasonable to me) I guess that all you need to change is the definition of MINFREE from 10 to 5 in newfs.c. There are probably lots of minor consequential changes - for example, both newfs and tunefs have 10 hard-wired in as the value below which they believe you should optimise for space rather than time. (Also, ufs_alloc never switches to time optimisation if minfree is less than 5.) -- Richard -- Richard Tobin, HCRC, Edinburgh University R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk "We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty" - HHGTTG