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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/savecore savecore.c 
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Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 15:23:35 PDT
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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In message <199610142138.HAA13903@godzilla.zeta.org.au>you write:
>However,
>writing the last K is unlikely to work anyway because statfs can't
>report the exact amount free in advance (it can't know how many
>indirect blocks there will be in advance).  Thus setting minfree to
>0 is bogus.

But savecore could make a pretty good guess about the number of indirect blocks, right?
	needed = kernelsize + dumpsize;
	needed += fudge(needed);

  Bill