From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 1 23:36:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.206.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DF9F1542E for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 23:35:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA51950; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 16:34:49 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 16:34:49 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@localhost To: David Scheidt Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nobody knows the answer? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, David Scheidt wrote: > You have almost certainly run out of file fragments. Space on FFS > filesystems is allocated in the from of blocks, which are divided into > fragments. These blocks are not the same as the physical disk blocks, but > are a number of sequential disk blocks. The default FFS block size is 8KB. > Each FFS block is subdivided into fragments. The default is 8 fragments per > block, giving a default frag size of 1KB. A very nice, simple, explanation. What are Cylinder Groups for? > > David Scheidt > -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message