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Subject: Re: Optimisation change(s) ?
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On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Doug White wrote:

>> What would make the slice optimisation for a particular slice change,
>> besides for if root or a root equivalent changed it using tunefs ?
>
>If it was running out of space??  It should be changable only by tunefs.

The partition wasn't running out of space :

/dev/wd0s1f    434879   335658    64431    84%    /usr

This is on a 2.2.5 machine.

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