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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!decwrl!nntp.crl.com!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Getting the most capacity out of Floppy Disks. Date: 21 Jul 1996 11:40:11 -0700 Organization: FreeBSD Lines: 15 Message-ID: <yfg3f2lfo1g.fsf@time.cdrom.com> References: <4sri1r$t7o@tofu.alt.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com In-reply-to: eyager@novagate.com's message of Sun, 21 Jul 1996 00:11:26 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 In article <4sri1r$t7o@tofu.alt.net> eyager@novagate.com writes: When I formated at 1.44M floppy disk and created a new files system on it, I only got a capacity of around 860K. That means that almost half of the disk is wasted to store file system information! How can I tweak the filesystem parameters so that I can increase the capacity to a more rational level without having to sacrifice long file names or random access to files? See the `-i' flag to newfs and increase the number you pass to it until you have a more reasonable balance. Jordan -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project