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From: kbethke@earth (Scotty bethke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Prob w/ WD 1 gig Drive and FreeBSD 2.0R
Date: 19 Feb 1995 14:54:02 GMT
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Stefan Esser (se@parc03.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE) wrote:
<SNIP>

: With the current default 
: of 4 fragments (i.e. 4KB)
: per inode, this reduces 
: to some 4. 

: # newfs -i 2000 /dev/sd0e

Ok so this creates a 2kb per inode setup??  is this the best for a news 
spool?


: You might even goto a fragment
: size of 512 Byte for a news 
: partition, this might give some
: 10% more usable capacity in 
: this special case ...

: # news -b 4096 -f 512 /dev/sd0e

May give 10%??  isnt that the same as the 4kb defualt that you describe 
above as being the default?  This is where I am confused, I guess.. I'd 
like to be sure as I dont want to have to wipe my news spool any more 
times than I HAVE to :)

ahhh, I see the "-f 512" is different this time, why would I create the 
default inodes with this fragment size?

Also, IM not using SCSI, so would it be:

# newfs -b 4096 (or 2000??) -f 512 /dev/wd1e 

for the second IDE drive?

Thanks for your help!

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