From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 14 23:43:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA13409 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 23:43:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA13279 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 06:43:06 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA04455; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 23:42:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 23:42:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Antonio Bemfica cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how do I mount a DOS ZIP disk? - etc. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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