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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Getting the most capacity out of Floppy Disks.
Date: 27 Jul 1996 22:09:16 GMT
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mrami@cep.yale.edu (Marc Ramirez) wrote:

> 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.

Not for ``hashing reserves'', but for file system layout optimization.
Go and read the Daemon Book, then try again.

Turning the reserve totally off is almost always a bad idea.  Make it
3 or 5 per cent if 10 is too much for you.  (If you don't care for
random access, why using a file system in the first place?  You could
use a tar floppy then, which is even more portable.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)