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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!newshub.tc.umn.edu!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Getting the most capacity out of Floppy Disks. Date: 27 Jul 1996 22:09:16 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4te42c$2ts@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4sri1r$t7o@tofu.alt.net> <yfg3f2lfo1g.fsf@time.cdrom.com> <4t8860$p34@news.ycc.yale.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E mrami@cep.yale.edu (Marc Ramirez) wrote: > 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. Not for ``hashing reserves'', but for file system layout optimization. Go and read the Daemon Book, then try again. Turning the reserve totally off is almost always a bad idea. Make it 3 or 5 per cent if 10 is too much for you. (If you don't care for random access, why using a file system in the first place? You could use a tar floppy then, which is even more portable.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)