From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 25 01:45:02 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA18979 for current-outgoing; Thu, 25 May 1995 01:45:02 -0700 Received: from sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu (sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu [130.245.1.47]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA18961 for ; Thu, 25 May 1995 01:44:58 -0700 Received: (from root@localhost) by sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) with UUCP id EAA07527 for current@freebsd.org; Thu, 25 May 1995 04:44:17 -0400 Received: (from gene@localhost) by starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA09525; Wed, 24 May 1995 20:20:32 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 20:20:32 -0400 From: Gene Stark Message-Id: <199505250020.UAA09525@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> To: blaise.ibp.fr!roberto@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu (Ollivier Robert) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: blaise.ibp.fr!roberto@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu's message of Wed, 24 May 1995 10:01:28 +0200 (MET DST) Subject: Re: newfs weirdness... 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. Not everyone is using "modern SCSI drives" (some are even using IDE). It is a constant annoyance to me that after I set up my IDE drive with a particular geometry, newfs ignores it, prints a warning message, and fails to utilize a bunch of odd sectors at the end of each partition. I have said this before, but I really would rather have newfs pay attention to the geometry stated in the disklabel. If you want to format your filesystems a different way, you can always set up your disktab or whatever. - Gene