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From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
To: Unknow User <kernel@tdnet.com.br>
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Subject: Re: block size, simple question!
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> 
> Why FreeBSD does not allow me to set my FreeBSD slices 512 bytes blocks
> long ?  I set my NewFS options to -b 512 -f 1024 and it returned with a
> status 1. 
> 

-b specifies block size, -f specifies fragment size. block size must be
greater than fragment size.  As said by Dan Nelson, blocksize is often
eight times as large as fragment size.  Check the man pages of newfs. 

-Zhihui



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