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Re: Half the size



On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Christer Sandvik
<christer.sandvik%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> Carl Lowenstein wrote:
>  > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Christer Sandvik
>  > <christer.sandvik%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>  >
>  >> Hello
>  >>
>  >>  I ran newfs on two RZ25-E disks but it created filesystems half the disk
>  >>  size which is not what is wanted. My experience of creating filesystems
>  >>  with newfs is small and could someone tell me which parameters would be
>  >>  used to correct this problem.
>  >>
>  >
>  > Is it possible that you are seeing a filesystem size in 1kB blocks
>  > while expecting to see one in 512B sectors?
>  >
>  >     carl
>  >
>  I ran df and it showed them as 200 MB which confirmed that so what's up?
>  Is there any chance parameters was left out?
>

Doesn't newfs create file systems to fit disk partitions?  Did you
partition your disks?  Eventually I will get lost at knowing details
of netbsd, but this seems fairly fundamental.

    carl
-- 
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