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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 6% UNIX overhead on SCSI disk?
Date: 15 Apr 94 20:47:20 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <2olj4b$2q7@site_cc.carlstedt.se> uddeborg@carlstedt.se (Goeran Uddeborg) writes:

>In article <Co8zCo.13L@barclays.co.uk>,  <PostMaster@barclays.co.uk> wrote:
>>Fen Labalme (fen@imagine.comedia.com) wrote:
>>It can be specified when the filesystem is made using mke2fs. Hopefully newfs
>>has similar functionality.

>It has: flag "-m percentage".

Also, the BSD FFS reserved percentage (and many other filesystem
parameters) can be changed at any point in the future with the
filesystem unmounted (typically in single-user mode) by simply using
the 'tunefs' utility.

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