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From: mrami@cep.yale.edu (Marc Ramirez)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Getting the most capacity out of Floppy Disks.
Date: 25 Jul 1996 16:42:40 GMT
Organization: The Civic Education Project, Yale Univ.
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In article <yfg3f2lfo1g.fsf@time.cdrom.com>,
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@time.cdrom.com> wrote:
>In article <4sri1r$t7o@tofu.alt.net> eyager@novagate.com writes:
>   When I formated at 1.44M floppy disk and created a new files system on
>   it, I only got a capacity of around 860K.  That means that almost half
>   of the disk is wasted to store file system information!  How can I
>
>See the `-i' flag to newfs and increase the number you pass to it until
>you have a more reasonable balance.

Try adding "-m 0" to newfs as well, but definitely play with the -i 
flag.  newfs automatically reserves 10% of the file space for hashing 
reserves.

Marc.