From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 24 01:01:48 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA02751 for current-outgoing; Wed, 24 May 1995 01:01:48 -0700 Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA02745 for ; Wed, 24 May 1995 01:01:45 -0700 Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id KAA08140 for ; Wed, 24 May 1995 10:01:30 +0200 Received: from (roberto@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) id KAA17853 ; Wed, 24 May 1995 10:01:28 +0200 From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) Message-Id: <199505240801.KAA17853@blaise.ibp.fr> Subject: Re: newfs weirdness... To: pb@fasterix.freenix.fr (Pierre Beyssac) Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 10:01:28 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199505240059.CAA12436@fasterix.frmug.fr.net> from "Pierre Beyssac" at May 24, 95 02:59:51 am X-Operating-System: FreeBSD BUILT-19950501 ctm#617 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 486 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > newfs doesn't seem to use the number of sectors by cylinder it gets > from the disklabel. It correctly warns that it will use 4096 and that > it differs from the disklabel value, though. > > Is that the expected behaviour ? Yes. Poul-Henning found that it was the best "geometry" to use with modern SCSI drives. Don't worry about it. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD keltia 2.0-BUILT-19950503 #3: Wed May 3 19:53:04 MET DST 1995