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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: hsu@freefall.freebsd.org, 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...

It doesn't waste many.  It uses all the sectors but allocates too many
inodes in the last cylinder group.  The allocation is bizarrely wrong
for 2880-sector floppies with the default newfs geometry of 1/1/4096.
This is fixed in 4.4BSD/Lite2.

Bruce