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From: rbt@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: NEWFS command for News filesystems?
Date: 30 Jul 1996 08:49:15 GMT
Organization: Eurocontrol EEC, Bretigny, France
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In article <4tk70c$il1@access5.digex.net>,
Brian G. <briang@access5.digex.net> wrote:
> Can somebody post/mail me the newfs command in the manual for creating
> a filesystem for News with inodes for 1K or 2K blocks please.  

I'd recommend "newfs -i 2048 -f 512 -b 2048 -d 0 -n 1 /dev/rwhatever" for
all news partitions except for alt (alt.binaries) where you can (and probably
should) have a bigger block/fragment size.
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