From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 8 04:10:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA13942 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 04:10:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from federation.addy.com (federation.addy.com [207.239.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA13930 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 04:10:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from francisco@natserv.com) Received: from quisqueya.natserv.com (TC2-dial-83-142.oldslip.inch.com [207.240.142.83]) by federation.addy.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id HAA03727 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 07:10:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199810081110.HAA03727@federation.addy.com> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 07:11:02 -0000 (GMT) Reply-To: francisco@natserv.com From: Francisco Reyes To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: recommendations using newfs to save space? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In FreeBSD since the default for newfs by sysisntall is 8K will considerable space be lost if files are less than 4K? Or to re-phrase: is the blocksize the minimun unit of allocation in FreeBSD? What is the Frag size? Newfs man page has a parameter for that, but no explanation. Also noticed on a new computer I am setting up that there are plenty more inodes than I will need. How much space does each inode uses? Does optimization for "space" really helps conserve space? What kind of degradation will be seen by using that flag instead of "time" optimization? ---- francisco@natserv.com The power to serve. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message