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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!delos.stgt.sub.org!nadia.s.bawue.de!luva!migieger From: migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de (Michael Giegerich) Subject: disklabeling a new drive Organization: private FreeBSD site Message-ID: <D462p6.1vM@luva.lb.bawue.de> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 23:03:05 GMT Lines: 25 As I didn't found a mention to this anywhere and because it could save some time to others... I found a use for the 'd' partition in /etc/disktab entries :) I wanted to disklabel a brand new disk and the way to do this was: `disklabel -w -r /dev/rsd1d type' When using /dev/rsd1c or sd1 the system gave back allways `device not configured'. BTW, I want many inodes in a large partition (800 MB). What would be the better choice for my disktab entry: blocksize 4k, fragsize 1k or blocksize 8k, fragsize 1k? (is there any difference preformancewise?) I did newfs the disk using the `-i 1024' parameter. -- Michael Giegerich migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de