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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.ycc.yale.edu!cep.yale.edu!mrami From: mrami@cep.yale.edu (Marc Ramirez) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Getting the most capacity out of Floppy Disks. Date: 25 Jul 1996 16:42:40 GMT Organization: The Civic Education Project, Yale Univ. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4t8860$p34@news.ycc.yale.edu> References: <4sri1r$t7o@tofu.alt.net> <yfg3f2lfo1g.fsf@time.cdrom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: www.cep.yale.edu In article <yfg3f2lfo1g.fsf@time.cdrom.com>, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@time.cdrom.com> wrote: >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 > >See the `-i' flag to newfs and increase the number you pass to it until >you have a more reasonable balance. Try adding "-m 0" to newfs as well, but definitely play with the -i flag. newfs automatically reserves 10% of the file space for hashing reserves. Marc.