From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 9 10:08:16 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA27830 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 9 Nov 1995 10:08:16 -0800 Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.barrnet.net [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA27815 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 1995 10:08:06 -0800 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.7.1/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with SMTP id KAA03838 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 1995 10:07:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA29219; Thu, 9 Nov 1995 11:00:06 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199511091800.LAA29219@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: install problem To: gurney_j@efn.org Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 11:00:06 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "John-Mark Gurney" at Nov 8, 95 10:50:39 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > well... it looks like to get a filesystem it has to be bigger than 1M... > not equal... if you try to make a partion of 2048 sectors it comes back > with a "The minimum filesystem size is 1MB", if you up it to 2049 then it > will work fine... also... if you put in 1M it will fail (because it > fails on 2048 I assume)... hope this helps... TTYL.. The newfs assumes the cylinder size... override the assumption, and you can reduce the size of the overhea pieces and thus the size of the FS. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.