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From: david@emeraldis.com (David G. Cannon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: NEWFS command for News filesystems?
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 96 23:38:15 GMT
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Here's what you need to use:

newfs -f 512 -b 4096 -i 3072 /dev/sd1h

Of course, the sd1h should be replaced with whatever device you're wanting to 
use. Hope you get this in time.

David G. Cannon


In article <4tkt3m$9u1@innocence.interface-business.de>, 
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) wrote:
>  briang@access5.digex.net (Brian G.) 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 is the required switch, the parameter is the number of data bytes
>  per i-node.
>  
>  > My manual is 700 miles away and I need to fix the inode count for
>  > the system.
>  
>  You don't have an on-line manual?
>