Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 23:42:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Antonio Bemfica <bemfica@militzer.me.tuns.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how do I mount a DOS ZIP disk? - etc. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980414234152.4383I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980414182106.22005B-100000@militzer.me.tuns.ca>
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On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Antonio Bemfica wrote: > Now a question - why is is that a UFS formatted ZIP disk gives me so much > less storage space than a DOS one? Here's the ouput of df for the two > disks, both empty: Because the UFS sets aside 10% of the diskspace to avoid fragmentation problems when the disk fills. As root you can run this over but the fragmentation goes through the roof. All UFS filesystems have this feature although you can change the amount in the safe zone using tunefs. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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