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From: williamson+@CMU.EDU (Todd Andrew Williamson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [NetBSD 0.9] filesystem weirdness?
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Date: 1 Dec 93 21:43:17 GMT
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.386bsd.questions: 1-Dec-93 Re: [NetBSD
0.9] filesystem.. Marc WANDSCHNEIDER@cs.mc (1451)

> In article <Added.EgzA4=200UdbQeJE5j@andrew.cmu.edu>,
>  <Todd.Williamson@IUS4.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU> wrote:
> >
> >I'm not sure whether I did something wrong, or if this is a "feature," 
> >but I want it fixed:

> 	For a piece of free software that people are working on out
> 	of their own time on a volunteer basis, this last sentence
> 	was EXTREMELY poorly phrased.

Sorry.  Upon rereading it, it does sound pretty harsh.

My intent was that I wanted to fix it on *my* system.  No insult
intended to the writers of what I consider to be a wonderful piece of
free software.

I'm looking into buying a bigger drive, but it seems a little harsh to
remove 25 useful megabytes from my 250 MB disk for the sake of
performance improvement.  I wouldn't at all mind if I had huge amounts
of space, but it's more important to me to be able to use the space than
to have a blindingly-fast disk.

Thanks to the people who pointed me to "tunefs" as a way to reduce the
number from 10% to something less.

-Todd.