Subject: Re: strange newfs behaviour
To: None <d.zanon@infinito.it>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 03/28/2005 10:25:05
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On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 08:23:41PM +0000, d.zanon@infinito.it wrote:
> Hello!
> I am seeing a strange thing on -current/macppc. Is it normal to happen?
> I have got a=20
> 8: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 home 39845888 @ 53448832 ( 19.0G) S2 U=
FS k0=20
> (pdisk)
> g: 39845888 53448832 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 53024*- =
=20
> 92554*)
> (disklabel)
> partition, which as you can see is 19GB.
> When I executed newfs -O 2 -i 4 /dev/wd0g, the operation was successful a=
nd I=20
I think that's 4 bytes per inode, not 4k. So you made a HUGE number of=20
inodes....
> noticed nothing until the partition got full in a few days. Then I checke=
d it=20
> and saw with df that it was about 2GB. Where were the other 17GB? Then I=
=20
> newfs'd it without specifying the number if cylinders per inode (I guess.=
..).=20
> Now it worked great.=20
> Why? Am I missing something obvious?
I think -i 4k would have done better.
Take care,
Bill
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