Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 21:55:19 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/newfs newfs.8 newfs.c Message-ID: <20011015215519.A394@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <20011015124636.I29828-100000@wonky.feral.com> References: <200110151945.f9FJj4D27624@gits.dyndns.org> <20011015124636.I29828-100000@wonky.feral.com>
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[ Cc: list trimmed] On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 12:47:04PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > There is a substantial amount of drives out there stil that are < 1GB. > Also, consider floppy && SANdisk types of devices. > > > > > > > Like 8k/1k for <1GB and 16k/2k for >1GB ? Can be done I think. I'll have a > > > look at that but bde has probably already written that patch years ago :-) > > > > is this 1GB limit really accurate ? > > do you know any todays drives lower than 4GB ? Also note that the limit discussed is for *filesystem* size. Not drive size. Even if the disk itself might be quite large it is not unusual that some of the filesystems on the disk are fairly small. (For example '/' '/var' and '/tmp' are often separate filesystems smaller than 1 GB.) -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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