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From: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu>
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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure
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  > It still bugs me that newfs (or better: UFS) is often wasting so many
  > sectors at the end of a partition since it also still believes that
  > disks have something like a uniform geometry that can be expressed in
  > terms of cylinders, heads, and sectors...

I wrote an ad-hoc brute-force program to determine the optimal -u
paramter between 2048 and 4096 which will minimize the number of
wasted cylinders.  I suggest we add the few lines to do this to
newfs.