Port-vax archive
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index][Old Index]
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
--
carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego
clowenstein%ucsd.edu@localhost
Home |
Main Index |
Thread Index |
Old Index