From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 11 08:39:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA08073 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 08:39:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (root@buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA08065 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 08:39:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA11339 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 10:39:59 GMT Received: from buffnet7.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa17731; 11 Jun 96 11:41 EDT Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 11:41:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Hovey To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: tunefs insecurities Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I want to use tunefs to reclaim disk space on larger partitions and to force optimization for speed. I just want to confirm what I get from the man pages. I must unmount the partition first for it to stick? Its wont change any of the contents on the parition? (meaning I wont wipe myself out will I?) For the value on minfree - does a whole integer such as 5 mean 5 percent? or does one put .05 or 5%? with optimization the man page says the value forced speed or space but doesnt provide what values are valid. Does anyone know? Any insight, hand holding, etc appreciated as always!