home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Path: sparky!uunet!decwrl!pa.dec.com!src.dec.com!src.dec.com!schedler
- From: schedler@src.dec.com (Richard Schedler)
- Subject: Re: Will DEC ever fix newfs/mkfs ??
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.051959.26668@src.dec.com>
- Sender: news@src.dec.com (News)
- Organization: DEC Systems Research Center
- References: <1992Jul27.020441.25308@kirk.bu.oz.au>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 05:19:59 GMT
- Lines: 13
-
- |> maybe one day (or should we all just remove our news partitions?)
-
- Maybe this will help with your news partitions; it's what I use:
-
- newfs -v -n -i 512 -b 4096 -f 512 -c 8 /dev/rrz1c rz58
-
- This will give you 512 bytes per inode, 4k blocks and 512 byte fragments.
- The trick it to decrease the number of cylinders per group to 8.
-
- --
- Richard Schedler <schedler@src.dec.com>
- Systems Research Center ...decwrl!schedler
- Digital Equipment Corporation
-